The Roman Curia looks likely to be reformed when the world’s cardinals meet in Rome tomorrow. Vatican commentator Thomas Reece says after Pope Francis creates 17 new cardinals, he wants to discuss his plans for reforming the Curia. The Curia is the bureaucracy the pope uses to help him exercise his pastoral office and universal Read more
Ever since he was elected pope, Pope Francis has been trying to reform the Vatican Curia, the bureaucracy that is supposed to help the pope in his ministry to the universal church. He has had only limited success — not surprisingly, since every pope since the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s has also Read more
The Vatican Curia looks likely to soon get a radical shake-up, comments Robert Mickens, in La Croix International. According to his sources, the Rome-based editor for La Croix International, says that Pope Francis has signed off Praedicate Evangelium, the upcoming apostolic constitution that will reform the Roman Curia. Francis will receive the resignation of around Read more
For Curia Cardinal Robert Sarah the Church has become a “den of darkness” and a “cave of thieves. Certain men of God have turned into “agents of the Evil one. “We have betrayed like Judas.” Sarah calls relativism “the mask of Judas, dressed as an intellectual.” “We tolerate everything” and “Catholic doctrine is put in Read more
The President of the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious Men and Women (CLAR) has apologised to Pope Francis for the leaked notes of a private conversation with the Holy Father over the weekend. In a statement released on the CLAR website, Sr Mercedes Homes Leticia Sanches said there was no record of the conversation Read more