The promotion likewise enhances his already shining reputation as a “papabile” most likely to be elected pope in the next conclave. Read:
Since Pope Francis is also set to issue an apostolic constitution that would set out curial reforms, Tagle will head a “super dicastery” that merges the CEP and the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization into one, making him the most important Vatican functionary together with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who heads the Secretariat of State, or the foreign ministry of the Holy See.
Gaston explained that there are three types of cardinals in the Catholic Church: “cardinal-priests” who head dioceses around the world; “cardinal-deacons” who are assigned in the Vatican; and “cardinal-bishops.” Also named cardinal-bishop on May 1 was Italian Cardinal Benjamin Stella, head of the Congregation for the Clergy, once headed by the late Philippine Cardinal Jose Sanchez.
Five of the cardinal-bishops have already reached 80 years of age and are no longer eligible to participate in a conclave.Filoni, a former papal nuncio to the Philippines, is 74, while Parolin is 65.With the election of Buenos Aires archbishop Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis in 2013, the papacy was removed from Catholic Europe to the New World.
The reforms will decentralize church operations and streamline the Vatican bureaucracy while emphasizing evangelization and pastoral ministry, according to Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, an adviser of Pope Francis on curial reforms.The Secretariat of State and Secretariat for the Economy will retain their names.
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