Vatican City, Jun 13, 2017 / 05:08 am
The last meeting of the head of dicasteries of the Roman Curia took place last May 29. Among other issues, the meeting discussed the possibility of priests being incardinated directly into ecclesial movements rather than into a diocese.
Pope Francis made the issue a central topic of his regular meeting with the head of dicasteries, though these kind of meetings usually deal with topics related to the government and the organization of the Roman Curia.
Via "incardination," a member of the clergy is placed under the jurisdiction of a bishop or, in the case of a religious, an ecclesiastical superior.
Aside from dioceses and religious institutes, only personal prelatures and ordinariates can incardinate priests.