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The papal appointments today


30 Jun 10 (RV)- Pope Benedict XVI accepted today the resignation of Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re from the post of Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, and President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America on having reached the age of retirement.

Cardinal Re, who turned 76 in January, held both posts since 2000.

The Holy Father named Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., Archbishop of Québec and Primate of Canada, to lead the Congregation and Commission.

Born on 8 June 1944 in Lamotte, near Amos, Canada, he was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Amos on 25 May 1968. He holds licentiates in theology and philosophy, and a doctorate in dogmatic theology.

On 15 November 2002, Cardinal Ouellet was appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Quebec. He is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Theology and was Relator General of the XII Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, “The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church” (5-26 October 2008).

He was created and proclaimed Cardinal by John Paul II in the Consistory of 21 October 2003, of the Title of S. Maria in Traspontina (Holy Mary in Transpontina).

Also on Monday, Pope Benedict XVI named Mons. Rino Fisichella to head the Pontifical Council for New Evangelisation.

Archbishop Fisichella was until today, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, as well as Rector of the Pontifical Lateran University. He will be replaced at the Academy for Life by Spanish Mons. Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, who was chancellor of the Academy.

Fr.Enrico dal Covolo, S.D.B., was named to take over as Rector of the Lateran University.

Also named today was Mons. Celestino Migliore, who has been the Vatican's permanent observer at the United Nations in New York, to be Apostolic Nuncio to Poland.



Below is John Allen's take on the Curial changes, though I might note that it is not so much that the theologians have triumphed over the diplomats, because it is not as if there had been an active battle between those two 'factions' as such. It simply reflects Benedict XVI's own preferences for the men with whom he must work with closely. All Curial appointments are Benedict's personal initiatives, not the result of any Vatican infighting.


Triumph of theologians
over diplomats in Vatican


Jun. 30, 2010


ROME - In what’s already a turbulent time, Pope Benedict XVI has triggered another Vatican earthquake, changing the guard in three senior leadership positions. [Two, not three. And what earthquake, when these changes were long forthcoming! - The changing of the guard in the case of the Congregation for Bishops and the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity is, fortuitously, because both previous dicastery heads are past canonical retirement age. And the third position is a new one, so there is no question of 'changing the guard']]

Among those exiting the scene is the Catholic church’s most prominent ecumenical leader over the past decade, while the new arrivals complete the ascent of personal friends and theological protégés of the pontiff to the Vatican’s top positions.

The Vatican announced today two key personnel moves:

• Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec replaces Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re as Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, responsible for recommending new bishops to the pope all over the world;
• Archbishop Rino Fisichella becomes the first President of the new Pontifical Commission for Promotion of the New Evangelization, a new Vatican department devoted to reawakening the faith in the West, especially Europe.

Tomorrow, announcement of a third transition is expected: Bishop Kurt Koch of Basel, Switzerland, will replace Cardinal Walter Kasper as President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Commission for Religious Relations with Jews [who, by the way, was no diplomat but a highly-reputed theologian himself].

Kasper has been the face of the Vatican’s ecumenical outreach since 2001. He recently held a farewell session with reporters in Rome, describing the effort to restore Christian unity as the “construction site of the church of the future.”

Ouellet, Koch and Fisichella all have longstanding ties to Benedict XVI.

Fisichella, a veteran of the Roman scene, collaborated with Ratzinger in the preparation of John Paul II’s encyclical Fides et Ratio, while Ouellet and Koch both move in the theological circles associated with the journal Communio, which was co-founded by Joseph Ratzinger.

All three over the years have argued for what Benedict XVI describes as a “hermeneutic of continuity” regarding the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), stressing that Vatican II did not repeal earlier teachings and traditions.

In July 2009, Koch addressed that point in a letter to the priests of Basel:

“Instead of accusing others, and even the Pope, of wishing to go back to before the council, everyone would be well advised to look over their own books and reassess their own personal position on the council,” he wrote. “Not everything that was said and done after the council, was therefore done in accordance with the council.”

One striking twist to today’s news is that as of now, neither the Secretariat of State nor the Congregation for Bishops is led by a product of the Vatican’s diplomatic service.

Traditionally, both posts have been held by men who come out of the diplomatic corps – preserving a balance, observers have usually argued, between the church’s spiritual and doctrinal priorities and its social, political and humanitarian interests.

In sound-bite fashion, one might say that today’s appointments complete the triumph of theologians over diplomats under Benedict XVI. [Allen's penchant for such 'soundbite' reductions also leads to some dubious generalizations!]

The Pope did make one diplomatic move of note today, naming Archbishop Celestine Migliore, currently the Vatican’s representative to the United Nations, as his new nuncio, or ambassador, in Poland.

In terms of timing, it’s traditional for the Vatican to make a flurry of moves in late June ahead of the Pope’s annual summer retreat at Castel Gandolfo. This year, Benedict XVI will leave for his summer residence next Wednesday after the conclusion of his General Audience.

In brief comments to reporters this morning, the Vatican spokesperson, Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi, said that the legal document formally creating the new Council for Promotion of the New Evangelization is not expected to appear soon because work on the document is ongoing.

Lombardi also confirmed that the Pope met this morning with Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard of Brussels. While he did not offer any details, the meeting follows a series of June 24 police raids in Belgium on church properties as part of a sex abuse probe and comes amid an escalating diplomatic row between Rome and Belgium over the incident.


Anna Arco has more background information on two of the new men in Benedict XVI's Curia:

Slew of new faces in new places

June 30, 2010


After weeks of being on tenterhooks about the new president of the Congregation of Bishops, the Pope has announced that Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Archbishop of Quebec will take up the post.

Cardinal George Pell was one of the people whose name was originally being bandied about, but a smear campaign and poor health made him turn down the appointment, according to Vatican watchers. [The smear campaign was based on his involvement in a couple of sex-abuse cases on which he had long been cleared. Nonetheless, in the hyper-judgmental anti-Vatican climate today, the mere association would have become, even if wrongly, an albatross around his neck and of the Pope's.]

In this Curial turn-around – which places a Canadian at the top of a curial department dominated by Italians – other important posts have also been filled and people shifted across departments.

Archbishop Rino Fisichella, a controversial figure who headed the Pontifical Council for Life as well as being the rector of the Lateran University, has been moved to the Pope’s new department the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelisation, while Don Enrico dal Covolo, S.D.B takes over as Rector at the Lateran, and Mgr Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, the Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Life, is taking over as head.

Mgr Carrasco de Paula is a medical doctor as well as a prominent moral theologian and bioethicist. He is a member of the Opus Dei.

He held a personal friendship with Jérôme Lejeune, the French pro-life pedeatrician and first president of the Pontifical Academy for Life who discovered the link between chromosome abnormalities and Downs Syndrome. The Spaniard is 73-years-old and was ordained to the priesthood in 1966.

The first is on the anniversary of Humanae Vitae in which he speaks about contraception, children and marriage and defends the 1968 document by Pope Paul VI. In the second, he speaks of the most important themes in bioethics, which he identified as the moments at the origin of human life and at its end. In the third interview, in English, he speaks about the Human Genome Project and the new frontiers of genetics. He is also the director of the Institute of Bioethics in the Agostino Gemelli Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, and an advisor to the World Medical Association.

Fr dal Covolo is an Italian Salesian (Like Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Benedict XVI’s Secretary of State) who is turning 60 in October and made his first vows in the order in 1973. He was ordained at the age of 31 in 1979. A professor of ancient Christian literature and an expert on the Church Fathers, Fr dal Covolo led the Papal retreat this year.

He joined Pope Benedict’s former department as a consultor to Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith in 2002 and is a consultor to the Congregation for the Clergy. He is a member of the Pontifical Council for Historical Sciences and Postulator General for the causes of saints of the Salesian Family, He is also on the Commission for Sacred Archeology.

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