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Pope says ‘rigidity, self-preservation’ must not impede reform of the Roman Curia

• Elise Harris
  Dec 21, 2019
  SENIOR CORRESPONDENT
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ROME - In his annual end-of-year speech to the Roman Curia, Pope Francis Saturday outlined his top priorities for its reform, highlighting evangelization, communication and use of new media as well as the Church’s social agenda, and insisted that necessary changes not be bogged down by what he described as “rigidity” and a desire for “self-preservation.”

The agenda the pontiff sketched likely indicates the structure and mindset behind a looming apostolic constitution on the role and function of the Roman Curia, which Francis confirmed will be titled “Praedicate evangelium,” or “Preach the Gospel.”

The pope took the opportunity to again strike back against what he said is the temptation to an “attitude of rigidity” on the reform, saying this rigidity “comes from fear of change [and] ends up scattering fences and obstacles on the terrain of the common good, making it a minefield of incommunicability and hatred.”

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