With Pope Francis, the Roman Curia is no longer the center, just as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is no longer labeled as “The Supreme,” as it was in ancient times, and was de facto under Pope Benedict XVI. The drift from the Curia is part of the Pope Francis’s project of decentralization, already outlined in the apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, the real programmatic document of the pontificate.