Overview
- The Consistory, held 26–27 June, gathered roughly 178 of 241 cardinals in the Paul VI Hall for focused talks aimed at rebuilding internal cohesion.
- Leone XIV opened the meeting by asking for “strong, explicit and public” support from the College of Cardinals as he pressed for a more united leadership.
- Cardinals worked in a sinodal format of about twenty small groups that will produce vetted summaries rather than free public debate.
- The official public agenda omitted the imminent episcopal consecrations announced by the Society of St. Pius X, leaving the sensitive traditionalist dispute off the record.
- The Holy See imposed a press-silence rule and will issue filtered takeaways through the Vatican Press Office, a move that limits independent reporting and could determine how any disciplinary or reconciliatory steps are framed.