20/05/2024 11:00 - 13:15

HALL: FATESI - CUSMANO

Proponent: Berkmann B.

Chair: Berkmann B.

Speaker: Berkmann B., Brechtel L., Nke Ongono J.O., Saraceni E.G., Tarantino D.

Pope Francis is reforming the Church's leadership structures. The Catholic Church is often seen as a pyramid. The Pope inverted this pyramid, as he stated: "But in this Church, as in an inverted pyramid, the top is located beneath the base." (Address, 17 October 2015). This might be seen as a paradigm shift. The panel examines changes such as the reform of the Roman Curia or the Synod of Bishops from the perspective of canon law. It takes a closer look at several dicasteries of the Curia and analyses the relationship between global and local church leadership. The focus is on principles such as administration by lay people, decentralisation, synodality and the separation of powers. The panel's speakers, who report on their individual research projects, provide diverse perspectives from Germany, Italy and Africa and also consider possible future developments.
Single topics are:
- Decentralisation in the Roman Curia
- The Church and progress: the role of the laity in the Dicastery for Integral Human Development"
- The Dicastery for Communication in the Synodal Path of the "Church Outgoing"
- Consultative participation of the laity in the ecclesiastical power of governance
Changes in Church leadership in Cameroon