{"id":28658,"date":"2013-10-03T10:48:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T14:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=28658"},"modified":"2013-10-03T14:02:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T18:02:19","slug":"pope-and-council-of-cardinals-work-on-substantial-curial-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/pope-and-council-of-cardinals-work-on-substantial-curial-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope and Council of Cardinals work on substantial Curial change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Council-of-Cardinals-with-Pope-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28659 alignleft\" title=\"Council of Cardinals with Pope 2013\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Council-of-Cardinals-with-Pope-2013-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Council-of-Cardinals-with-Pope-2013-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Council-of-Cardinals-with-Pope-2013.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Word from the Holy See regarding the meeting this week of Pope Francis and the Council of Cardinals is that substantial change is expected in the Roman Curia. The change at hand is not going to be a mere redaction of <em>Pastor bonus<\/em>, the 1988 ecclesiastical constitution promulgated by Blessed John Paul II.<\/p>\n<p>The accent is going to be <em>subsidiarity<\/em> providing room for greater collaboration between and among bishops and national Conferences of Bishops.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing has been firmly decided and it will be the Pope who who will take these days of consultation to prayer and make decisions. It is speculated that significant revisions will happen in the current Secretary of State &#8211;perhaps being reformed to be an office of Secretary of the Pope. Also, there could be a Moderator of the Curia, and the revision of various Departments.<\/p>\n<p>The Council meets twice a day with the Pope.<\/p>\n<p>The Council of Cardinals, sometimes called the C8 is made up of the following churchmen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cardinal Oscar Rodr\u00edguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, Honduras (coordinator of the Council), 70;<\/li>\n<li>Bishop Marcello Semeraro of Albano, Italy, (Council\u2019s secretary), 65;<\/li>\n<li>Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, the president of the Vatican city-state governorate, 71;<\/li>\n<li>Cardinal\u00a0Francisco Err\u00e1zuriz Ossa, the retired Archbishop of Santiago, Chile, 80;<\/li>\n<li>Cardinal\u00a0Oswald Gracias of Bombay, India, 68;<\/li>\n<li>Cardinal\u00a0Reinhard Marx of Munich, Germany, 60;<\/li>\n<li>Cardinal\u00a0Sean P. O\u2019Malley of Boston, USA, 69;<\/li>\n<li>Cardinal\u00a0Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kinshasa, Dem. Congo, 74;<\/li>\n<li>Cardinal\u00a0George Pell of Sydney, Australia, 72.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Missing from the Council at the moment is a bishop\/Cardinal from one of the the Eastern Catholic Churches.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K149bKYrHUA&amp;feature=youtu.be\"><strong>a CNS report<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Press Office directed by Jesuit Father Frederico Lombardi <a href=\"http:\/\/en.radiovaticana.va\/news\/2013\/10\/03\/reform_of_the_curia_will_be_substantial\/en1-733985\"><strong>has this to say about parts of the meeting<\/strong><\/a> that are of interest. A previous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.radiovaticana.va\/news\/2013\/10\/02\/fr_lombardi_sj_briefs_on_council_of_cardinals\/en1-733695\"><strong>review is here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word from the Holy See regarding the meeting this week of Pope Francis and the Council of Cardinals is that substantial change is expected in the Roman Curia. The change at hand is not going to be a mere redaction of Pastor bonus, the 1988 ecclesiastical constitution promulgated by Blessed John Paul II. 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