Pope Leo reviewing ‘special faculties’ for laicization

Pope Leo reviewing ‘special faculties’ for laicization

Pope Leo XIV is reviewing the authority of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Clergy to use procedures introduced first by Benedict XVI for the laicization of clerics in special circumstances.St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome. Credit: Pillar Media.Pope Francis’ apostolic constitution Praedicate evangelium on the reform of the Roman curia gives the dicastery the authority to administratively dispense clergy from the clerical state, a normalization of speci…