{"id":43513,"date":"2022-09-05T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2022\/09\/05\/pope-francis-issues-new-constitution-for-order-of-malta\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T15:47:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T13:47:53","slug":"pope-francis-issues-new-constitution-for-order-of-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2022\/09\/05\/pope-francis-issues-new-constitution-for-order-of-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis issues new constitution for Order of Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis has issued a decree promulgating a new constitution for the Order of Malta&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and dissolving its current leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope also convoked an extraordinary general chapter for January 25 to begin the process of electing a new Grand Master.<\/p>\n<p>The over 900-year-old sovereign order has some 13,500 members and 95,000 volunteers worldwide that operate refugee camps, clinics, and organize disaster relief projects.<\/p>\n<p>The Order of Malta had been involved in a process to reform its constitution since 2017. The  Pope's special delegate to the Order, Cardinal Silvano Tomasi, has assured that the new constitution would not weaken its international sovereignty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Under the new constitution, top leadership positions within the order, including its Grand Master, will no longer be required to descend from noble lineage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Grand Master will no longer follow the tradition of being elected for life, but will rather be elected for once renewable 10-year terms, and will be obligated to resign at age 85.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 5, 2022. The Pope also convoked an extraordinary general chapter for January 25 to begin the process of electing a new Grand Master.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kf1MVfs0bAI","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapaordinemaltaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapaordinemaltaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}