Jacira Soares grew up in a poor community on the island of Sao Nicolau in Cape Verde, where she walked a mile or more from her home to get clean, drinkable water.
Last Saturday, after many years of consultation and work, the Holy Father promulgated the new Constitution on the Roman Curia, Praedicate Evangelium. Many of the ideas contained therein have already been implemented by the creation of new dicasteries and policies within the curia. Still, it certainly pulls together many of the themes of Pope Francis's pontificate, and has evangelization as its unifying theme. As I always say, if the Church exists to evangelize, the curia must exist to evan