Pope Francis announces new apostolic constitution for the Curia

The next phase of Vatican reform will be crucial. Pope Francis' highly acclaimed reform of the Roman Curia will rise or fall on the people he chooses to oversee its implementation

By Robert Mickens. LaCroix International March 26, 2022

It's not quite the revolution that so many people are talking about, but it could be a significant step in the right direction, depending on what happens next.

Pope Francis surprised everyone last week when he ordered the hasty publication of a new apostolic constitution that codifies his reform for the Catholic Church's central bureaucracy known as the Roman Curia.

The new text -- Praedicate Evangelium ("Preach the Gospel") -- was published before it was even properly edited. It includes numerous typos and even at least one factual error -- the use of the now obsolete term "extraordinary form of the Roman Rite" (Sec. III, Art. 93).

Furthermore, the document was issued only in Italian. That's unacceptable for a text that insists that the people who are hired to work in the Roman Curia "must mirror the catholicity of the Church" by hailing from "diverse cultures" from around the world (Sec. II, par. 10).

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