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A extraordinary consistory, the second of his pontificate, is the rabbit that Bergoglio the cap will be taken off to revolutionize the Vatican Curia by putting it at the service of the little ones 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 prove Urbi et Orbi With this extraordinary meeting, his teaching is solid and he does not fear schisms thanks to the majority of the purple ones raised, almost all of them in his image and likeness.
Bergoglio’s plan
He will adopt the excuse of the session to present himself with great fanfare, motu proprio, the News the long-awaited reform of the Roman Curia, always promised and never put into practice and whose fundamental lines Time is able to anticipate. But Pope Francis, from the little news that is leaking, intends to make a forcing and present himself directly with a motu proprio, with which, more than a simple reform, it seems to be real 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. Therefore, the consecration 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.
That cardinal who whispers to the Pope
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, this is the cardinal of Honduras, Oscar Mariadaga: he would have managed to whisper to Pope Francis to order this great meeting, calmly warning him that it can no longer be the restricted council of cardinals – passed from the so-called C8 to C9 and then to a low C6, in a very Jesuit way, say the wicked – carry out the laborious restructuring of the Vatican apparatus, preaching collegiality and digging into 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.
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