Posts Tagged ‘C8’

“Mum’s the word” as Pope and cardinals meet for third time

Friday, February 21st, 2014

A third meeting of Pope Francis with his international Council of eight cardinals has ended without specific details being made public. Among the items under consideration were financial matters and the reform of the Vatican bureaucracy, and, according to La Stampa, Vatican Spokesman, Fr Federico Lombardi told journalists, the Pope’s advisors, yesterday, presented their initial Read more

Rodriguez – Reform aims to make Curia simple and effective

Friday, October 18th, 2013

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 Read more