Bishop Marcello Semeraro Archives

Curial aide says reform is about mission, not doctrine

Jun 27, 2019

Bishop Marcello Semeraro, who serves as secretary to Pope Francis’s council of cardinal advisors, said Thursday that, doctrine alone is no longer enough to reach an increasingly post-Christian world.

By Elise Harris

Decentralization, simplification heart of curial reform, official says

Nov 13, 2018

Pope Francis’s call for a missionary church that is focused on preaching the Gospel will be the guiding principle of the apostolic constitution that will govern the Roman Curia, the secretary of the pope’s international Council of Cardinals said.

By Junno Arocho Esteves

Claims of heresy over ‘Amoris Laetitia’ are out of place, cardinal says

Mar 5, 2018

Pope Francis’s exhortation on the family should prompt discussion and even debate, but accusing him and others of heresy is completely out of place, said German Cardinal Walter Kasper.

By Cindy Wooden

Prelate close to pope: Divorced/remarried can be teachers, lectors, godfathers

Mar 4, 2018

Bishop Marcello Semeraro of Albano, Italy, who’s the secretary of Pope Francis’s Council of cardinal advisers, told his priests Friday that “fitting” divorced and remarried Catholics can play roles such as being godfathers and godmothers, religion teachers and lectors at Mass.

By John L. Allen Jr.

Curial reform is a matter of pastoral concern, says secretary to Council of Cardinals

Feb 15, 2018

Reform of the Vatican Curia aims to emphasize pastoral care, and should not be seen as a reform that will overturn the whole Curia, a bishop involved in Rome’s Curia reform process has explained.

By Andrea Gagliarducci

Vatican reform process ‘nearly complete,’ C9 member says

Sep 11, 2017

Bishop Marcello Semeraro said the Council of Cardinal’s work in advising Pope Francis on the reform of the Vatican’s organization and church governance – describing it as a three-step process of “listening” to the contributions from the bishops, the Roman Curia and “many people who have written,” reflecting on those proposals and checking them over – is almost done.

By Junno Arocho Esteves