(CARINO HODDER. The Pillar).
Pope Francis’ motu proprio Vos estis lux undi turns five years old this month.
First promulgated for an experimental period of three years and now in permanent force, the letter delegates the Holy See’s power to investigate Church leaders who have no superior other than the Pope himself – chief among them diocesan bishops – to a metropolitan archbishop, in cases where that Church leader has been accused either of sexual abuse or of mismanaging abuse cases.