Ahead of the Jan. 7-8 gathering, four cardinals each prepared a paper for the internal use of the cardinals taking part in the meeting. The papers – obtained by Crux – are each two pages in length, in both English and Italian.
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The four documents Pope Leo XIV ordered drawn up to inform a recent gathering of cardinals at the Vatican each took a somewhat different approach, a Crux review has determined, with each document showing a member of the last pontificate’s leadership cohort in a cautious posture as the new pope comes into his own.
At the consistory convoked by Pope Leo for Jan. 7-8, four issues were on the table for discussion: Synod and synodality; Pope Francis’s reform law, Praedicate Evangelium, which reshaped the Roman curia (the Catholic Church’s central governing and administrative apparatus); Pope Francis’s programmatic 2013 apostolic exhortation, Evangelii gaudium, on “The Joy of the Gospel”; the liturgy.
