A senior papal adviser let slip that the reform of the Vatican bureaucracy with which his electors tasked Pope Francis at the start of his pontificate will come soon — possibly as soon as June 29 — setting off a round of parsing, commentary, and speculation.

The senior adviser was the Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, one of two cardinal members of the C6 Council of Cardinal Advisers to which Pope Francis delegated the drafting of the reform law, to speak to Spain’s leading Catholic weekly, Vida Nueva.