As a group of eight Catholic cardinals handpicked by the Pope to shake up the
Vatican’s murky and autocratic bureaucracy prepares to meet, the group’s
leader has said they plan to rip up and rewrite the apostolic constitution
which apportions power at the Holy See.
The cardinals, who were appointed in April by Pope Francis and will confer
with him for the first time at the Vatican on Oct. 1-3, were briefed to
revise the constitution, known as Pastor Bonus, drawn up in 1988 by Pope
John Paul, in a bid to give a great voice to bishops around the world.