VATICAN CITY
Catholic Herald (UK)
by Catholic News Service posted Thursday, 12 Feb 2015
Proposals for changes to structure of the Curia emerging at the Vatican
High-level discussions are continuing on how exactly to reform the Roman Curia, but the idea of consolidating several offices into two large groups — one with family, laity and life, and the other with justice and peace, migrants and charity — seems to be taking form, the Vatican spokesman has said.
Briefing reporters yesterday, the third day of meetings of Pope Francis’s international Council of Cardinals, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, insisted “there is not and has never been” a draft document of a constitution providing a new list of all Curia offices and their responsibilities.
But there does seem to be a “concrete” and “more developed” proposal to put the pontifical councils for laity and for the family, along with the Academy for Life into one office and the pontifical councils for justice and peace, Cor Unum (charity) and migrants and travelers into another, he said.
“It does not seem to me that there are many other concrete ideas” that are ready for discussion by the entire College of Cardinals, Fr Lombardi said.
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