Pope Francis and his Council of Cardinals

 

Letter From Rome

Pope Francis and his Council of Cardinals

The establishment of this 'privy council' five years ago was hailed as an important historical development, but certain members have cast a shadow on its credibility

Robert Mickens, Rome
Vatican City

June 8, 2018

Pope Francis will hold yet another three days of meetings with the Council of Cardinals, beginning on Monday.
It marks the 25^th time the 81-year-old pope will have gathered the members of his “kitchen cabinet,” a novel assembly of senior advisors he instituted exactly one month after his election as Bishop of Rome in 2013.
Francis formed the exclusive group “to advise him in the government of the universal Church and to study a plan for revising the Apostolic Constitution on the Roman Curia, Pastor Bonus,”  John Paul II’s 1998 re-structuring of the main Vatican offices.
Everyone knows that this unique “privy council” has been working to reform the church’s central bureaucracy. But most seem to have forgotten that the first task assigned to it is to assist the pope in the governance of the universal Church.

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