Vatican
City, 13 April 2013 (VIS) – Following is the full text of a communique issued
today by the Secretariat of State.
“The
Holy Father Francis, taking up a suggestion that emerged during the General
Congregations preceding the Conclave, has established a group of cardinals to
advise him in the government of the universal Church and to study a plan for
revising the Apostolic Constitution on the Roman Curia, ‘Pastor Bonus’.
The
group consists of:
Cardinal
Giuseppe Bertello, president of the Governorate of Vatican City State;
Cardinal
Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa, archbishop emeritus of Santiago de Chile,
Chile;
Cardinal
Oswald Gracias, archbishop of Bombay, India;
Cardinal
Reinhard Marx, archbishop of Munich and Freising, Germany;
Cardinal
Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, archbishop of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of
Congo;
Cardinal
Sean Patrick O’Malley O.F.M., archbishop of Boston, USA;
Cardinal
George Pell, archbishop of Sydney, Australia;
Cardinal
Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in
the role of coordinator; and
Bishop
Marcello Semeraro of Albano, Italy, in the role of secretary.
The group’s first meeting has been scheduled for
1-3 October 2013. His Holiness is, however, currently in contact with the
aforementioned cardinals.”
NB (SSJC) – No Eastern Catholic prelates, sadly