VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Reporter
Joshua J. McElwee | Feb. 5, 2015 NCR Today
VATICAN CITY
A two-day meeting in Rome next week of the world’s Catholic cardinals will focus mainly on discussing reform of the church’s central bureaucracy, the Vatican spokesman said Thursday.
Speaking to reporters briefly on a number of topics, Vatican spokesman Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi also said there was no other theme for the meeting, called by Pope Francis for Feb. 12-13.
The meeting, known as a consistory, is expected to see hundreds of the church prelates gather in Rome before Francis formally names 20 new cardinals in a ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica Feb. 14.
The pontiff has embarked on a program of reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, known as the Roman Curia. He has been soliciting advice for the reform from a group of nine prelates he has appointed to a special group called the Council of Cardinals.
That group, which includes Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley, is to meet at the Vatican Feb. 9-11, just before the full cardinals’ meeting.
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