Indian named among Pope’s reform advisers
Vatican City, April 13: Pope Francis on Saturday set up a group of cardinals to advise him on church governance and study reforms, marking his first step toward reforming the Catholic Church’s opaque administration.
Archbishop of Bombay Oswald Gracias was among eight high-ranking cardinals selected for the tast.
In a brief statement, the Vatican said that newly- elected Pope Francis had named eight cardinals from around the world to the group that will examine updating the constitution of the Roman Curia, the Church administration which analysts say is badly in need of reform.
Other than the Archbiship Gracias, the cardinals include two Europeans (Giuseppe Bertello from Italy and Reinhard Marx from Germany), two from Latin America (Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa from Chile and Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga from Honduras), one from North America (Sean O’Malley from Boston), one African (Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya from the Democratic Republic of Congo) and one Australian (George Pell of Sydney).
The group is due to hold its first meeting from October 1-3, the Vatican statement said.
The announcement came a month after Pope Francis was elected leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics and a week after he made his first appointment to the scandal-hit Vatican bureaucracy.
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