Pope Leo XIV holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Nov. 19, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Dec 2, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).
ThepopehasapprovedthenewGeneralandPersonnelRegulationsoftheRomanCuria,whichcomeintoeffectJan.1,2026,andwhichadapttheinternalfunctioningoftheVaticanbodiestotheapostolicconstitutionPraedicateEvangelium,promulgatedbyPopeFrancisin2022.
Thedocument,approved“adexperimentum”(fortemporaryorprovisionaluse)forfiveyears,seekstoconsolidate“anecclesialservicemarkedbyapastoralandmissionarycharacter.”
DocumentsinLatin…orinotherlanguages
Amongthemostsignificantinnovationsisahistoricchangeinlinguisticmatters.Forthefirsttime,theregulationsstipulatethat“thecurialinstitutionswill,asageneralrule,drafttheirdocumentsinLatinorinanotherlanguage.”
Untilnow,Latinwasusedbydefaultinthedraftingofinternaldocuments.ThenewrulewillallowdocumentstobewrittendirectlyinlanguagesusedbytheCuria,suchasItalian,English—thenativelanguageofPopeLeoXIV—orSpanish,whic
