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Rome Newsroom, May 18, 2023 / 09:10 am (CNA).
Is the new Fundamental Law issued by Pope Francis last week simply a modernization of Vatican City’s civil constitution or something much more — perhaps even a Copernican revolution in how the city-state functions and understands itself?
Pope Francis said he issued the new law “to respond to the needs of our times.” And Professor Vincenzo Buonomo, a councilor of the Vatican City State and rector of the Lateran University, stressed this week that this reform, the first in 23 years, merely aims at emphasizing and valuing some of the aspects of the state, while at the same time giving it what he called a renewed “missionary push.”
Yet in some respects, Francis’ May 13 promulgation moves the state closer to the model of a modern, secular state.
To be sure, the new law leaves no doubt that the civil government rem