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Pope Leo XIV’s consistory aims to advise on Church governance and synodality with cardinals, reflecting on key papal documents and fostering common discernment.
- On Jan. 7-8, Pope Leo XIV summoned the full college of cardinals for an extraordinary, private consistory at the Vatican, his first major programmatic event.
- To foster common discernment, the consistory was called to support the Holy Father on Church governance after cardinals requested greater dialogue following pre-conclave complaints about consultation under Pope Francis last year.
- Using small working groups, the consistory begins at 3 p.m., with a noon intervention period, Mass at Saint Peter's Basilica, and a final session from 3:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.
- The pope said the sessions will 'point the way for our path ahead' and discussions will focus on Evangelii Gaudium, Praedicate Evangelium, synodality, and the liturgy for priorities over one or two years.
- All cardinals, including those over the age of 80, are expected to participate in extraordinary consistories, which are private meetings rarely convened under recent popes, with John Paul II holding 6 and Benedict XVI none.
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Pope Leo XIV gathers on Wednesday and Thursday the cardinals of the whole world in the Vatican for the first time in his pontificate, an assembly dedicated to directing the Catholic Church towards a more collegial governance.
For the first time since his election, Pope Leo invites all cardinals to the Vatican. Behind closed doors, he wants to discuss the priorities of his young pontificate.
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For the first time in his tenure, the pontiff convenes all 245 cardinals from around the world, responding to the demand for more collective governance of the Catholic Church.
While his predecessor exercised power in a very authoritarian manner, the present pope showed that he was ready to open spaces for consultation. In the programme of this "extraordinary consistory" must be opened in particular the complex and explosive file of the Mass in Latin.
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