A brand new structure comes into power within the Vatican on Sunday, with which Pope Francis has reorganised the authority equipment of the Catholic Church.
Observers see within the new doc, which has the Latin title “Praedicate Evangelium” (Proclaim the Gospel), a transparent will to reform on the a part of the 85-year-old head of the Catholic Church.
Amongst different issues, the brand new structure permits lay folks and due to this fact additionally girls to go dicasteries, that are like ministries within the Vatican’s governing construction, and so additionally the very best places of work within the Curia, because the Vatican’s authorities is thought.
This position was beforehand reserved just for cardinals and archbishops, and thus solely for males.
The Pope additionally positioned the Curia extra on the service of the bishops on this planet.
Within the 50-page doc, he spoke of a “wholesome decentralisation” and of leaving competence to the “shepherds”.
The doc appeared unannounced on March 19 this 12 months, but it surely had been anticipated for a while. A council had been engaged on it for years.
The brand new structure changed Pope John Paul II’s 1988 order “Pastor Bonus” (The Good Shepherd), which had been in power till then.
Pope Francis additionally reorganised the councils, congregations and dicasteries and unified their names. They now all come beneath the class of dicastery.
