Delo notes importance of reform of Catholic Church

Ljubljana – The newspaper Delo writes about the wider implications of Praedicate Evangelium, the apostolic constitution reforming the Roman Curia and the Catholic Church, which was discussed as Pope Francis hosted cardinals for a meeting earlier this week.

“Behind the noise of off-the-cuff speculation” about his potential withdrawal, the pope’s “plan appears to have long been focused on the operation to turn the Catholic Church from ‘head to feet'”, the paper writes on Saturday under the headline Turning the System from Head to Feet.

The document has decentralised the Roman Curia as the central institution of the Vatican and put it on a equal footing with the regional episcopal conferences. “The unrest and ‘jostling’ in the Slovenian, and likely in other episcopal conferences as well, can probably be understood in the context of this strategic shift.”

“The shift towards the Gospel, from an aristocratic Church to a Church for the poor, the homeless, the hungry and the thirsty, as Pope Francis has always expressed himself directly or indirectly, may also have global consequences for the world’s increasingly uniform societies.”

The paper says driven by crises and the “march of neoliberalism”, the world has never been running into “a new feudalism” as fast as it is now.

“This reinforces two movements. The first is in a new rethinking of modern times within the Catholic Church, and the second in the potential emerging of a new coalition of global social movements for peace and social justice.”

Referring to the former, the paper points to an initiative by the London-based Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research to renew the initiative on a Constitution for the Catholic Church, which it says revives the idea of the global ethic floated by theologian Hans Küng.

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