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Pope Francis to 'rip up and rewrite' Vatican constitution.
As a group of eight Catholic cardinals handpicked by the Pope to shake up the Vatican’s murky and autocratic bureaucracy prepares to meet, the group’s leader has said they plan to rip up and rewrite the apostolic constitution which apportions power at the Holy See.
Pope Francis to 'rip up and rewrite' Vatican constitution.
As a group of eight Catholic cardinals handpicked by the Pope to shake up the Vatican’s murky and autocratic bureaucracy prepares to meet, the group’s leader has said they plan to rip up and rewrite the apostolic constitution which apportions power at the Holy See.
Pope Francis appointed eight
Catholic cardinals to shake up the Vatican’s murky and autocratic
bureaucracy Photo:
AFP
The cardinals, who were appointed in April by Pope Francis and will confer
with him for the first time at the Vatican on Oct. 1-3, were briefed to revise
the constitution, known as Pastor Bonus, drawn up in 1988 by Pope John Paul, in
a bid to give a great voice to bishops around the world.
But Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, the group’s leader, said as the
meeting loomed they were planning to go much further that just changing “this
and that.”
Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga
"No, that constitution is over," he said in a TV interview. "Now it is something different. We need to write something different,” he added.
“In the past the Vatican has just revised existing rules so this is a rupture
after a century of increasing centralisation,” said Gerard O’Connell, a Vatican
analyst at the Vatican Insider.
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