SUMMARY:
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POPE FRANCIS APPOINTS GROUP OF CARDINALS TO ADVISE HIM ON CHURCH
GOVERNMENT AND REVISION PLAN OF APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION ON ROMAN CURIA
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AUDIENCES
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
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POPE
FRANCIS APPOINTS GROUP OF CARDINALS TO ADVISE HIM ON CHURCH
GOVERNMENT AND REVISION PLAN OF APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION ON ROMAN CURIA
Vatican
City, 13 April 2013 (VIS) – Following is the full text of a
communique issued today by the Secretariat of State.
“The
Holy Father Francis, taking up a suggestion that emerged during the
General Congregations preceding the Conclave, has established a group
of cardinals to advise him in the government of the universal Church
and to study a plan for revising the Apostolic Constitution on the
Roman Curia, 'Pastor Bonus'.
The
group consists of:
Cardinal
Giuseppe Bertello, president of the Governorate of Vatican City
State;
Cardinal
Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa, archbishop emeritus of Santiago de
Chile, Chile;
Cardinal
Oswald Gracias, archbishop of Bombay, India;
Cardinal
Reinhard Marx, archbishop of Munich and Freising, Germany;
Cardinal
Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, archbishop of Kinshasa, Democratic
Republic of Congo;
Cardinal
Sean Patrick O'Malley O.F.M., archbishop of Boston, USA;
Cardinal
George Pell, archbishop of Sydney, Australia;
Cardinal
Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., archbishop of Tegucigalpa,
Honduras, in the role of coordinator; and
Bishop
Marcello Semeraro of Albano, Italy, in the role of secretary.
The
group's first meeting has been scheduled for 1-3 October 2013. His
Holiness is, however, currently in contact with the aforementioned
cardinals.”
AUDIENCES
Vatican
City, 13 April 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father met in private
audiences with:
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Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops,
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Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Pontifical Council for the
Laity, and
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His Excellency Nestor Osorio, president of the Economic and Social
Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations.
OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican
City, 13 April 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father appointed:
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Fr. Godfrey Igwebuike Onah as bishop of Nsukka (area 3,179,
population 841,000, Catholics 480,326, priests 213, religious 225),
Nigeria. The bishop-elect was born in Imilike Ani, Enugu, Nigeria in
1956 and was ordained a priest in 1984. The bishop-elect was
previously vice rector of Rome's Pontifical Urban University and is a
consultor of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops. He
succeeds Bishop Francis Emmanuel Ogbonna Okobo, whose resignation
from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted,
upon having reached the age limit.
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Fr. Udumala Bala Show Reddy as bishop of Warangal (area 22,702,
population 7,724,845, Catholics 66,385, priests 138, religious 554),
India. The bishop-elect was born in Ghanpur, Gudur, India in 1954 and
was ordained a priest in 1979. Since ordination the bishop-elect has
served in several pastoral and administrative roles, most recently as
vice-secretary general of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India.
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Archbishop Aldo Cavalli as apostolic nuncio to Libya. Archbishop
Cavalli, titular of Vibo, is already nuncio to Malta.
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Archbishop Leon Kalenga Badikebele as apostolic nuncio to Belize.
Archbishop Badikebele, titular of Magnetum, was previously apostolic
nuncio to El Salvador.
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