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>the Vatican had abolished the traditional "devil's advocate", which served a similar purpose

False: the Divinus Perfextionis Magister (an apostolic constitution and not an edict) has rearranged the process of the causes of the saints, involving much more than in the past the local bishops in promoting and investigating the causes of canonization, leaving the promotor fidei with the task of draw up, together with other theologians, the conclusions on the final report prepared by the rapporteur of the cause. In practice, the figure of the advocatus in diaboli (medievalization of a legal institution) coincides with that of the promotor fidei. So it has not been abolished at all if anything strengthened