Pope Leo opened the 2-day consistory this morning
He especially asked cdls for their advice, pastoral experience to help him as PopeCounts on them to “discern what the Holy Spirit is saying today to the Church”
Asks for their “honesty, frankness and realism in a spirit of communion… & patience.”
Notes the consistory structure of round tables vs open discussion “is not normal for many of you” but asks them to engage in it as an exercise of synodality and communion. Background details on Consistory on Per Mariam
- https://tinyurl.com/38skaj9e
Tables divided into two halves: cardinal electors in 1, and in the other are cardinal-electors working in the Curia along with non-electors
EG: Cardinal Burke sitting at a table with Cardinals Roche and Radcliffe and Alencherry, among others