VATICAN CITY
Chiesa
They are proposed by an Australian theologian and economist, in an open letter to Pope Francis. A simple and concrete contribution to the reform of the curia that is in the works
by Sandro Magister
ROME, February 9, 2015 – For three days, beginning today, the nine cardinals of the council that assists the pope in the governance of the universal Church will draw an assessment of the work done so far in the reform of the curia.
And on February 12 and 13, they will submit their proposals for the examination of the whole college of cardinals, gathered in consistory.
The consistory will be secret, but in any case it will not produce any conclusion. Pope Francis himself is taking his time and has pushed back all practical decisions until at least 2016.
The proposals that have been leaked to this point appear, in fact, to be very far from constituting an organic project. They include, for example, the consolidation of a certain number of curial officials in two new congregations, one for justice and peace and another for the family and laity, each of them subdivided into five departments, but there is no agreement on how they could actually function.
And the same uncertainty also applies to a few key existing dicasteries, like the secretariat of state, the congregation for the doctrine of the faith, and the congregation for bishops.
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