VATICAN CITY
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by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D. 2 Dec 2014
In a recent interview, Pope Francis’ right-hand man for the reform of the Roman curia said we can expect serious downsizing of the offices that make up the Vatican bureaucracy.
Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, the Honduran coordinator of the “C9,” the committee helping Francis restructure Vatican offices, said that the reform of Vatican finances had been the Pope’s first priority. Now that the process is seriously underway, attention is turning to the reform of the Vatican government.
Until now, there has been considerable overlap among the various Vatican departments, and the reform has been aimed at consolidation. There are, for instance, 12 different pontifical “councils” or offices, ranging from the Council for the Laity to the Council for Culture, and from the Council for Justice and Peace to the Council for the Pastoral Care of Healthcare Workers.
Maradiaga said that two larger departments are being created, “dedicated to the laity and charity,” which will subsume a number of the existing pontifical councils. He said that while there are “certain details that need to be fine-tuned,” the project is moving forward quickly.
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