Vatican ends routine use of Latin in sweeping overhaul

Pope Leo XIV has approved the most comprehensive reform of Vatican administration in twenty-five years.

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The Vatican has announced the most far-reaching overhaul of its internal administration in a quarter of a century, with Pope Leo XIV approving two major regulatory texts that will reshape daily life inside the Holy See.

Signed on the Feast of Christ the King and published on 24 November, the new Regulation of the Roman Curia and the corresponding Regulation of Personnel set out a five-year ad experimentum framework intended to bring order, consistency and modern management to an institution long governed as much by custom as by law.

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