VATICAN CITY (AP) — A top Vatican official sought Tuesday to temper expectations of an imminent reform of the Holy See’s dysfunctional bureaucracy, even though Pope Francis has made clear it’s a key priority.

Monsignor Angelo Becciu, under-secretary of the Vatican secretariat of state, said it was “absolutely premature to put forward any hypothesis” about the reform and that Francis was still in a “listening” and discerning phase.