Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, of Honduras, the president of the Council of eight (C8) which Pope Francis has called to advise him on administrative reform, was in Wellington last week. He came there straight from the first meeting of C8.
Wellington’s Catholic newspaper, Wel-Com reports that Cardinal Rodriguez said the C8 plans to help the pope to reform the Roman Curia, making it more simple and effective and ‘closer to the people’.
These plans include consideration of a new dicastery or department to represent lay people in the Church. ‘There is a dicastery for the bishops, for the priests, for religious but only a council for lay people who make up the greater part of the Church.’
Cardinal Rodriguez said The Catholic Church in New Zealand is likely to have more representatives at the highest echelons of church governance.
Source
- Wel-Com
- Image: Derek Johnson/Wel-Com
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