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March brought the first major slimming to the structure of the Roman Curia, as Benedict merged four existing pontifical councils into two. The Pontifical Council for Migrants and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace were consolidated into one office headed by Justice and Peace chief Italian Cardinal Renato Martino...
This key Curia post had been held by another Italian power player, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe. Replacing Sepe with Indian Cardinal Ivan Dias, archbishop of Bombay, was proof that the Pope isn't afraid to take on the Vatican status quo. It also was an acknowledgment that the man responsible for...
Bertone was Ratzinger's deputy at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1995 to 2003. So Benedict chose the affable Cardinal in part because he knows they can work well together. But Bertone stands out because he is not a career diplomat, like Sodano and most secretaries...
Timed together with Sodano's retirement comes the end of the Curia career for the governor of Vatican City, U.S. Cardinal Edmund Szoka, who will be replaced on Friday by Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, currently the Holy See foreign minister. This will leave the job of top foreign affairs official vacant...
One Vatican veteran, Cardinal Camillo Ruini, who has held the doubly potent post of Vicar of Rome and head of the Italian Bishops Conference since 1991, has stayed put so far. But maneuvering for his succession is well under way. Among those mentioned to replace Ruini are two Cardinals - Angelo...