According to the Wikipedia entry on Pope Benedict XVI, mentioned above, young Joseph Ratzinger had been impressed by Romano Guardini's work.
Now, in 2013, the cardinal-electors gave the new pope a mandate to reform the Vatican Curia, the network of church offices that assist the pope in governing the church.
Journalists who cover the pope need to become familiar with the various Vatican offices - to get insider information about what is going on. The various Vatican offices are indispensable to the hierarchical governance of the church. Indeed, the cardinal-electors' mandate to the new Pope Francis called for reforming the Vatican Curia precisely to improve church governance.
A word is in order here about the word hierarchical, which sounds somehow alien to our American sense of values. However, we Americans are quite familiar with the hierarchical arrangements of our own governance structures as local, state, and federal authorities.
Now, the 2022 Apostolic Constitution Praedicate Evangelium ("Preach the Gospel") formally establishes sixteen dicasteries as making up the church's governance structure centered in the Vatican:
(1) Dicastery for Evangelization (articles 53-68);
(2) Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (articles 69-78);
(3) Dicastery for the Service of Charity (articles 79-81);
(4) Dicastery for the Eastern Churches (articles 82-87);
(5) Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (articles 88-97);
(6) Dicastery for the Causes of Saints (articles 98-102);
(7) Dicastery for Bishops (articles 103-112);
(8) Dicastery for the Clergy (articles 113-120);
(9) Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (articles 121-127);
(10) Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life (articles 128-141);
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