The week after Pope Francis toughened up the rules on setting up new orders it became clear that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI distanced himself from an order that he helped establish and recognised in 1977 when, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, he was Archbishop of Munich and Freising.
Now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has expressed regret for his original support for the Catholic Integrated Community (CIC).
Consistory to reflect on Church’s mission to communicate God’s love
In a letter to the Cardinals ahead of a late-June Consistory, Pope Leo XIV calls for a deeper reflection on the themes of “Evangelii gaudium,”
