[Editor’s Note: These are the third excerpts of a two-part interview between Pope Leo XIV and Crux Senior Correspondent Elise Ann Allen contained in her new biography of the pontiff,  León XIV: ciudadano del mundo, misionero del siglo XXI, or “Leo XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the XXI Century.” The book is published in Spanish by Penguin Peru and will be available for purchase in stores and online Sept. 18. English and Portuguese editions will be available in early 2026.]

Allen: Shifting direction a bit, running and reforming the Roman Curia is also something that you are responsible for. Pope Francis carried out many reforms, he got Predicate Evangelium done, but there is still some unfinished business. What will your approach be to reform? What will you continue, and what might you do differently?

Pope Leo: I think that the basic inspiration of Predicate Evangelium is valid and very important, in that it has presented a renewed understanding of the Holy See, the Roman Curia, as being at the service of both the ministry of the pope and also of the local bishops. It has to be available in both ways. Many, many bishops have said to me, already from the time when I was in the Dicastery for Bishops, that when they would come to Rome, they were petrified. What am I being called to Rome for? What’s the problem? Instead of understanding that the Holy See is here to help them, to serve them.