UNITED STATES
Cardinal Roger Mahony Blogs L.A.
Pope Francis will meet with all the Cardinals of the world, along with those to be created on February 14, in Rome on Thursday and Friday, February 12 and 13.
We have been informed that the agenda will focus on the ongoing restructuring of the Vatican Curia, the various offices which assist the Pope in his governance of the Universal Church.
This will be fascinating, and it is becoming increasingly obvious that Pope Francis is leading all of us disciples of Jesus into a fuller and deeper relationship with Jesus as a first step. Any renewal of the broader Church must begin with our own personal renewal in and through Jesus. Then, Pope Francis is pointing us to a simpler organizational and administrative structure, preferring the simpler model of the Church in the Acts of the Apostles. This model places greater autonomy at the local levels of the Church, as lived out historically in the Eastern Catholic Churches and in the Orthodox Churches.
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