St. Peter s Basilica, pictured on March 19, 2013. / Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk.Vatican City, May 10, 2022 / 09:05 am (CNA).In a speech to dicastery leaders on Monday, a bishop said that the new Vatican constitution gives value to Catholic bishops conferences and their potential to foster communion between bishops and the pope.The preamble of Praedicate evangelium, Bishop Marco Mellino said, affirms that bishops conferences "are currently one of the most significant ways of expressing and serving ecclesial communion in the different regions together with the Roman Pontiff."Mellino, who is the secretary of Pope Francis Council of Cardinals, said the constitution s intention is "that of valuing the episcopal conferences . in their potential for implementing the communion of the bishops among themselves and with the Roman Pontiff."He went on to say that this works to the extent that each of the bishops conferences "is a valid instrument which contributes, in a m
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St. Peter s Basilica. / Mazur/cbcew.org.uk.Vatican City, Apr 4, 2022 / 06:10 am (CNA).In the world of the Vatican, the editio typica of a document is critically important. It is the standard edition of a text that serves as a reference for translations into other languages.For this reason, the editio typica of Praedicate evangelium, the new apostolic constitution reforming the Roman Curia, was highly anticipated. When the document was released without warning, and only in Italian, on March 19, it contained several minor inaccuracies and one article that needed to be corrected immediately.The Vatican published the editio typica on March 31 in L Osservatore Romano, Vatican City State s daily newspaper. There are, in fact, only a few differences between the standard edition and the version released on March 19. But the changes shed some further light on the thinking behind the reform. The most striking change concerned the celebration of the liturgy according to the pre-conciliar .
Cardinal Reinhard Marx marks 20 years of queer worship and pastoral care at St. Paul parish church, Munich, southern Germany, March 13, 2022. / erzbistummuenchen/Facebook.Hamburg, Germany, Mar 31, 2022 / 08:10 am (CNA).German Cardinal Reinhard Marx said in an interview published on Thursday that the Catechism of the Catholic Church is "not set in stone" and "one is also allowed to doubt what it says."The cardinal made the comments in a seven-page spread in the March 31 edition of the weekly current affairs magazine Stern, reported CNA Deutsch, CNA s German-language news partner.Marx, the archbishop of Munich and Freising, is one of the most influential Catholic leaders in Europe, serving as a member of Pope Francis Council of Cardinal Advisers and president of the Vatican s Council for the Economy.He spoke about the Catechism in response to a question about "how homosexual, queer, or trans people are to be accommodated in Catholic teaching."He said: &qu