Pope Francis greets a crowd before celebrating a private Mass at the Church of the Gesu in Rome July 31. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
VATICAN CITY — Today the Vatican’s weekly schedule announced Pope Francis has called together all heads of the Roman Curia for an early morning meeting tomorrow. Though the pope always meets with them at the end of the year to look back on the last 12 months, this gathering mid-year is highly unusual.
Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi told CNS that the meeting is part of “the Holy Father’s reflection on the governance of the church” and that it will be followed by “another important moment with the meeting of the Group of Eight cardinals” in October.
He created the so-called “Group of Eight,” (read here about who they are), in April to advise him on reforming the Vatican bureaucracy. It’s part of a larger effort of reform that includes reviewing the activities and mission of the Vatican bank. The three advisory bodies he has formed so far are all charged with studying specific problems and concerns, drawing up concrete solutions, then relaying all of their studies and results directly to the pope.
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The sooner they explain that the IOR is not the Vatican Bank., where every cynic thinks the SCV has millions in gold but has the cash from all religious orders the better. So tired of the fake stories flying around for decades, heard it first as a student working for the summer in London UK in 1959!
The stories will never stop because they don’t originate in substantive criticism based on facts but originate from the a priori opinion that the Church is wrong.
We’ll have to see how much reorganization actually takes place. Careerists at the Vatican do no better service to the Church than do careerists in DC do the country any good.