In the last hours the word “Consistory”next to that of Pope Francisis in Google research trends. The interest is due to the fact that Tuesday the Vatican has made it known that the Pope, for twelve days hospitalized to take care of bilateral pneumonia, intends to convene a consistory for the canonization of two blessed soon: the “doctor of the poor” Venezuelan Giuseppe Gregorio Hernández Cisneros Born in IsnoTu on 26 October 1864 and died in Caracas on 29 June 1919 e Bartolo Longostandard bearer of devotion to the Madonna del Rosario del Pompei, where he died on October 5, 1926.
There is no date of the Constoro announced on Tuesday. It can be shortly, it can be in a few weeks or month. Much, of course, will also depend on the health conditions of the pontiff. The canonizations are dossiers who had already been educated and for which only the last ratification of the Pope was necessary who and signs the decrees and, in the Construction, announces the date of the canonization ceremony he chaired.
The Consistor is a usual meeting in the life of the Church. The word derives from the Latin consistoriumwhich means precisely “assembly” or “meeting”. Canon law provides for two types, ordinary and extraordinary, As the canon 353 states: “Cardinals mainly lend help with collegial activities to the supreme shepherd of the Church in the Concistori, in which they gather by order of the Roman Pontiff and under his presidency; The concolars can be ordinary or extraordinary ».
In the extraordinary consistory, “Which is celebrated when the Church’s peculiar needs suggest it or the discussion of particularly serious issues, all cardinals are summoned.”
In the ordinary one, as the word itself says, the ordinary issues are dealt with (and “in particular solemnities” it can be public, that is, open to others in addition to the cardinals. Among the ordinary conchosts there are two types: what the Pope convenes When “creates” new cardinalsand the consistory for the causes of canonization.
In eleven years Francesco convened a single extraordinary consistory, at the beginning of the pontificate, on February 20, 2014, to reflect on the theme of the family. Shortly thereafter the Synod (in two stages and two years) took place) which resulted, among other things, in the opening to communion for the divorced divorceds, a very debated theme in the synodal assembly.
During his pontificate, Bergoglio convened Ten concistlers for the creation of new cardinals: The first on February 22, 2014, the last on 7 December last (the others bring the date of February 14, 2015, 19 November 2017, 28 June 2018, 5 October 2019, 28 November 2020, 27 August 2022, 30 September 2023, and twelve concistor for the vote on the causes of canonization (30 September 2013, 20 October 2014, 12 June 2014, 27 June 2015, 15 March 2016, 19 May 2018, 20 July 2018, July 1, 2019, 3 May 2021, 27 August 2022, 4 March 2022, July 1, 2024).
The Pope also convened two “thematic” shells, one dedicated to the Middle East, on October 20, 2014, and one in mid -February 2015, just before the consistory of that year for the creation of the new cardinals.
