It is clear the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue will continue to orbit in coordinates very similar to those of the previous pontificate.
The Holy See Bulletin announced this Monday the appointment of new consultants to the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue. The statement, strictly administrative in tone, limits itself to listing 19 names, positions, and origins. However, the list includes profiles that were already associated with very specific ecclesial debates—due to their public activity, statements, or theological framework—and therefore the announcement has raised questions about the type of approach that is intended to be reinforced in a particularly sensitive dicastery, where language and gestures have pastoral and doctrinal consequences. The en.news portal has highlighted several profiles for their public positions and symbolic weight within the ecclesial debate.
Among the appointed consultants are, among others, Emilce Cuda (Pontifical Commission for Latin America), Mónica Santamarina (World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations), the religious Mary Teresa Barron (superior general of the Missionaries of Our Lady of the Apostles), Ana María Bidegain (ICMICA–MIIC Pax Romana), Catherine Cornille (Boston College), and Sofía Nicolasa Chipana Quispe (Community of Wise Women and Theologians of Abya Yala), in addition to priests and academics from different countries.
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