Pope meets cardinal advisors for
first 2018 session
The 23rd meeting of the C9 Council, charged with advising
the Pope on reforming the Roman Curia, has begun in the Vatican.
By Richard Marsden
Pope Francis has met with his C9 Council
of Cardinals for the first time in 2018 to continue their study ofreform
of the Roman Curia, with a particular focus on the main dicasteries.
The 23rd meeting of the body set up in September 2013 by
Pope Francis began on Monday and is set to end on Wednesday.
In a recent interview with Vatican News, the secretary of
the C9, Bishop Marcello Semeraro, explained that this working
session would continue the “final phase” of study on the fundamental
dicasteries of the Curia.
“Change in mentality”
During the interview, the Bishop of Albano added that “the
reform for organisations is real, changes in structures, but the first change
that must be made - and permanently - is a change in mentality.”
Bishop Semeraro said the reforms intend to express “a
harmony with what the Pope has written in the Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium”
followed by “putting oneself in that paradigm of missionary activity, of
proclaiming the Gospel, in the light of which all other organisational and
institutional realities are faced.”
The C9 body was established with the task of helping Pope
Francis “in the government of the universal church and to study a plan for
revising the Apostolic Constitution on the Roman Curia, Pastor Bonus.”
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