A corresponding "Christmas letter" goes to all cardinals this week, wrote the newspaper "Il Giornale" on Tuesday. The consultations of the consistory are to be held on 7 and 8, according to the paper. January in Rome.
Pope Francis (2013–2025) had the dispute with the traditionalists on 16. July 2021 with his letter "Traditionis custodes" tightened.
With this decree, he severely restricted the possibilities for celebrating the pre-conciliar fair, which was repeatedly criticized by traditionalists.
Synodality will also be discussed
The two-day meeting of the more than 200 cardinals of the Catholic Church will also discuss the issue of synodality, according to the report. This is about issues of saying to bishops, priests and unordinated church members, which Francis had strongly promoted.
Most recently, in October 2024, the World Synod of Bishops and other clergy, but also non-consecrated men and women with the right to vote, had taken decisions on reform for the universal Church.
Among them were new rules for accountability of bishops. Francis had subsequently surprisingly enacted the decisions one-on-one.
Invitation to Leo's first consistory by Re
Pope Leo XIV had the invitation to the first consistory sent in November by the dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni Battista Re.
But the topics were now only included in the Pope's Christmas letter to the cardinals, it said.
Cardinal assemblies have been used differently by the popes in recent years.
The most spectacular case was the extraordinary consistory on the 11th. February 2013, at which the then Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation.
Pope Francis used the consistory on 20th. February 2014 to initiate a debate with a keynote speech by Cardinal Walter Kasper about a new approach of the Catholic Church to remarried divorcees.