Call for CDF to be radically restructured.
We are Church Ireland welcomes and supports Pope Francis’s call for
reform of the Vatican Curia to be slimmed down especially when it comes to
“offices that are no longer responsive to contingent needs”.
Based on this criterion We are Church Ireland is calling for The
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to be radically restructured as a
rights based organisation thus ensuring it can be responsive to the needs of
the contemporary Church.
In his address he named the sources of the resistance to his agenda for
reform, which he stated, came from either ‘a sense of goodwill or fear or are
based on malevolent intentions dressed like a wolf in sheep’s clothing’.
In spite of this resistance to reform we call upon Pope Francis to assert his
Pontifical authority to bring forward the reforms that are necessary for the
Church to fulfil its mission in the contemporary world with the full
involvement of lay people especially women.
Brendan Butler, We are Church spokesperson.