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Luigi bisignani
Dear Director, an extraordinary consistory, the second of your pontificate, is the rabbit that Bergoglio will take out of his cap to revolutionize the Vatican Curia by putting it at the service of the smallest and not of doctrine. The occasion will give him the long-awaited end of the health emergency, when all the cardinals of the world, by order of the Supreme Pontiff, will meet, with the newly legalized gatherings, to pray for humanity.
But what the Pope really wants to demonstrate urbi et orbi with this extraordinary meeting is that his magisterium is solid and he does not fear schisms thanks to the majority of purples raised, almost all of them in his image and likeness. It will take the pretext of the consistory to present with great fanfare, with a ‘motu proprio’, the ‘Praedicatae Evangelium’, the long-awaited reform of the Roman Curia, which has always been promised and has never been carried out and whose fundamental lines time knows how to anticipate. But Pope Francis, from the little news that leaks out, intends to force himself and present himself, directly with a motu proprio, with what, more than a simple reform, seems to be an authentic revolution of the Roman Curia.
Since Pius V introduced it in the mid-sixteenth century, the Roman Curia has followed a very precise hierarchy of apparatuses: after the Supreme (the Pope), comes the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (which is also, moreover, the true court papal). , disciplinary departments (bishops, clergy and religious) and pastoral departments (Propaganda Fide, Catholic Education and others). According to Pope Francis’ plans, this hierarchy should be reversed as follows: first Propaganda Fide (which would also incorporate the New Evangelization), then a newborn Department of Charity (which would unite at least two of the current Departments), then again a new Department of Justice. The consecration therefore of the Church of the Poor. Depending on the course of the pandemic, the possible dates to convene this extraordinary consistory, which provides for the arrival under the Dome of more than a hundred cardinals, could coincide with one of the most popular Madonnas festivities, on February 11 ( Our Lady of Lourdes), or May 13, the day of Our Lady of Fatima.
But who could have convinced the Pope, until then always rebellious, to call the supreme organ of the Church for consultation after the not particularly happy experience of February 2014, in which the approach decided by Cardinal Walter Kasper on the subject was discussed and questioned by no less than 15 purples. synod for the family and in which a beacon was lit on the divorced? According to rumors from Santa Marta, it is about the Cardinal of Honduras, Oscar Mariadaga: he would have managed to whisper to Pope Francis to order this great meeting, warning him in a low voice that it can no longer be the restricted council of cardinals – passed from the so-called C8 to the C9 to then reach a low C6, in a very Jesuit way, say the wicked, to continue the laborious restructuring of the Vatican apparatus, preaching collegiality and scratching at absolutism.
The extraordinary consistory is fundamental not only to support the Pope but also to ensure that the majority of the cardinals expected in Rome, some of whom are chosen ‘by surprise’ from remote and unknown countries, meet and not only, when it will be, to elect the new Pontiff. The office of Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals since 2018, will be in charge of the organizational machine.
To create a community, and not only in spirit, the previous popes (Saint John Paul II and Benedict XVI) used to gather the Sacred College before each “public” consistory with a view to the creation of new cardinals or new canonizations and the same is true did with the Synod of Bishops. This is to guarantee – on the part of the Vicar of Christ – that preparatory forum for discussion, collegiality and sharing proper to the so-called “Senate of the Pope.” In fact, the Roman Pontifical establishes that, when they meet in consistory, after each announcement of the Pope (decisions, canonizations, appointments of cardinals, election of bishops for the most important dioceses), the cardinals are consulted one by one and invited to express your thoughts. . That it can be a “placet”, a “non placet”, but also a “placet iuxta modum” (I agree under certain conditions). Bergoglio may be a little afraid of him. An earthquake that of the reform of the Curia that, if it happens, will also shake Bernini’s colonnade. In saecula saeculorum.
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