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Praedicate evangelium
Praedicate evangelium (English: Preach the gospel) is an apostolic constitution reforming the Roman Curia; it was published and promulgated on 19 March 2022 by Pope Francis, and the document took effect on 5 June 2022.
The apostolic constitution was developed over nine years by the Council of Cardinals. It is the fifth time that a reform of the Roman Curia of this kind has occurred. The document replaces Pope John Paul II's Pastor bonus of 1988.
The reform of the Roman Curia had been requested by the cardinals at the meetings held before the 2013 conclave. Immediately after becoming pope, Francis started working on the reform.
The Council of Cardinals was established in 2013 by Pope Francis to revise Pastor bonus. However, at its first meeting the council decided the changes planned were important enough to deserve an entirely new constitution. The council began working on the new constitution in 2014, and approved the first draft in 2018. This draft "was sent to the heads of current Vatican offices, bishops' conferences around the world and other experts in the spring of 2019".
In February 2020, during its regular meeting, the Council of Cardinals re-read the constitution. Revisions were adopted at the recommendation of the dicasteries and "some experts". At the same meeting, several proposed amendments were also considered.
In October 2020, after the Council of Cardinals had presented the updated draft of the constitution to the Pope, the competent Dicasteries proceeded with the reading of the draft. According to the official communiqué, the Pope had stated that the reform coming with the constitution was "already underway, also in some administrative and economic aspects".
In December 2020, the Council of Cardinals met online to continue the work on the constitution. The commission namely studied amendments proposed by the consulted dicasteries.
Cardinal Parolin, Secretary of State, said in a 29 January 2021 interview that "he believed 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 [i.e. Auditor] General". Parolin adds that some reforms he considers minor might happen in the form of two fusions of dicasteries: the fusion of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples with the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization, and the fusion of the Congregation for Catholic Education with the Pontifical Council for Culture. He says: "Now it is a question of giving homogeneity to all the reforms which have been made, by means of the new apostolic constitution which has for at least provisional title: 'Predicate Evangelii [sic]'". He also stated that the new apostolic constitution was mostly finished and would be published "before the end of this year".
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Praedicate evangelium
Praedicate evangelium (English: Preach the gospel) is an apostolic constitution reforming the Roman Curia; it was published and promulgated on 19 March 2022 by Pope Francis, and the document took effect on 5 June 2022.
The apostolic constitution was developed over nine years by the Council of Cardinals. It is the fifth time that a reform of the Roman Curia of this kind has occurred. The document replaces Pope John Paul II's Pastor bonus of 1988.
The reform of the Roman Curia had been requested by the cardinals at the meetings held before the 2013 conclave. Immediately after becoming pope, Francis started working on the reform.
The Council of Cardinals was established in 2013 by Pope Francis to revise Pastor bonus. However, at its first meeting the council decided the changes planned were important enough to deserve an entirely new constitution. The council began working on the new constitution in 2014, and approved the first draft in 2018. This draft "was sent to the heads of current Vatican offices, bishops' conferences around the world and other experts in the spring of 2019".
In February 2020, during its regular meeting, the Council of Cardinals re-read the constitution. Revisions were adopted at the recommendation of the dicasteries and "some experts". At the same meeting, several proposed amendments were also considered.
In October 2020, after the Council of Cardinals had presented the updated draft of the constitution to the Pope, the competent Dicasteries proceeded with the reading of the draft. According to the official communiqué, the Pope had stated that the reform coming with the constitution was "already underway, also in some administrative and economic aspects".
In December 2020, the Council of Cardinals met online to continue the work on the constitution. The commission namely studied amendments proposed by the consulted dicasteries.
Cardinal Parolin, Secretary of State, said in a 29 January 2021 interview that "he believed 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 [i.e. Auditor] General". Parolin adds that some reforms he considers minor might happen in the form of two fusions of dicasteries: the fusion of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples with the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization, and the fusion of the Congregation for Catholic Education with the Pontifical Council for Culture. He says: "Now it is a question of giving homogeneity to all the reforms which have been made, by means of the new apostolic constitution which has for at least provisional title: 'Predicate Evangelii [sic]'". He also stated that the new apostolic constitution was mostly finished and would be published "before the end of this year".