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6 days ago · The Holy See’s administration is a top-down bureaucracy run by the Roman Curia, a group of dicasteries (also known as departments), congregations, and councils with specific functions and responsibilities relating to church matters such as liturgy and worship, religious education, missionary activities, doctrine of the faith, or bishops and ...
4 days ago · This year could see sweeping changes at the top of the curia, even without the publication of the long-awaited new Vatican constitution expected to be called Predicate evangelium. The five-year mandate of the 77-year-old Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, will expire in July.
May 21, 2024 · With the formal organization of the congregations, or offices, of the Roman Curia by Pope Sixtus V (1585–90), the active function of the consistories diminished. In modern times consistories are largely ceremonial. The limited matters they deal with have already been arranged by the pope himself or by the Consistorial Congregation (now the ...
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May 14, 2024 · In January 2021, Cardinal Parolin said that “considerable progress” had already been made in the Pope’s reform of the Roman Curia, particularly with regard to Vatican finances, pointing to the creation of the Council for the Economy, the Secretariat for the Economy, and the Office of the Revisor General.
May 15, 2024 · Alone against the Roman Curia and the world: the new biography of Benedict XVI - Catholic news – La Croix International. News / Religion. Alone against the Roman Curia and the world: the...
6 days ago · April 8th, 2024 at 10:00 am (Europe\Rome). Updated April 10th, 2024 at 01:49 pm (Europe\Rome) Loup Besmond de Senneville. (Photo by MAXIME MATTHYS) This coming June marks two years since Pope...
1 day ago · The 1492 papal conclave was the first to be held in the Sistine Chapel, the site of all conclaves since 1878. A papal conclave is a gathering of the College of Cardinals convened to elect a bishop of Rome, also known as the pope. Catholics consider the pope to be the apostolic successor of Saint Peter and the earthly head of the Catholic Church ...
