What happened?
The Vatican has moved a step closer towards having a new constitution. Pope Francis’s council of cardinal advisers has been considering the comments on the first draft from bishops, theologians and others.
The council will make a final set of revisions before giving the draft to Pope Francis to look over.
Why was it under-reported?
The Vatican’s statement said nothing about the specific issues discussed – only that there were “many contributions … from bishops’ conferences, from the specific observations from the dicasteries of the Roman Curia”, and from other groups such as Eastern Catholic synods and the pontifical universities.
