Robert’s rules: How the new prefect for bishops could reshape the US Church

On episcopal appointments and investigations into bishops, there are expectations that Prevost could prove to be an agent of change. Whether he will or not we shall see.

Archbishop Robert Francis Prevost assumed leadership last week of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Bishops, the curial department responsible for episcopal appointments world-wide, and for managing investigations into bishops under the norms of Vos estis lux mundi.

Archbishop Robert Francis Prevost, prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops.

The Chicago-born August…