Pope Francis was elected five years ago with a mandate to reform the Roman Curia. He had a clear goal: to shift power and responsibility away from the Vatican and towards local bishops’ conferences. As he put it in his famous pre-conclave speech to cardinals, the Church had become “self-referential” and needed to turn its gaze outward again.
https://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine/reviving-the-c9/
https://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine/reviving-the-c9/