Pope Francis summoned the 226 cardinals to Rome for a consistory. In the end, almost 200 were able to attend. Many, such as Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, from Nicaragua, could not go because of the political crises in their countries. Others remained at home due to their age and health.<\/p>\n
However, this did not prevent the meeting from taking place. The objective was clear from the beginning\u2014to help the cardinals understand the spirit of the new apostolic constitution, Praedicate Evangelium\u2014or as the experts say: to help move from paper to reality.<\/p>\n
FERNANDO PRADO During these two days, there were more cardinals in the Eternal City than usual. As they entered one of the sessions, they related messages of reassurance, explaining that they don't expect any major changes.<\/p>\n CARDINAL JOSEPH COUTTS CARDINAL PATRICK D'ROZARIO The Roman Curia is also for the mission of the Church\u2014it's a mission to the Holy Father as well as mission to the particulare churches that are found all over the world.<\/em><\/p>\n The constitution leaves more room for the presence of lay people in the Curia. It also proposes a time limit to people holding high-ranking positions. But above all it implies a reorganization of internal departments, such as the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, which is expected to improve the dialogue between the Church and the world. Some of these departments had already been in place for some years.<\/p>\n The coordinator of the Council of Cardinals, Cardinal \u00d3scar Rodr\u00edguez Maradiaga, explained last May that there are still many areas that will require reflection and changes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n KG\/JRB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 29, 2022. Nearly 200 of the 226 were present. Many were unable to attend for reasons of age and health or because of the delicate political situation in their countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_sNwSoWc-X4","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcardinalipraedicateeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcardinalipraedicateint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43538"}],"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=43538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>The Church has been reflecting on the best possible reform during these nine years. It has been a long process, very thorough and edited by many people, and the process went on and on regarding the same thing until it was resolved. Now, we have to give life to the work, which is the hardest part.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nArchbishop Emeritus of Karachi, Pakistan
\n<\/strong>Pope Francis had published a document about the changes to be brought about in the Curia. Again, this is not somehting new. This had been prepared earlier, much earlier. So now, it's being put before all the cardinals\u2014we already had copies\u2014we are giving our views on it.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nArchbishop Emeritus of Dhaka, Bangladesh
\n<\/strong>It's whole dimension is a missionary dimension and the emphasis is that all the baptized people are missionaries.<\/em><\/p>\n