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Cardinal Gracias will help to reform the troubled Catholic Church.
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Cardinal Gracias will help to reform the troubled Catholic Church.Vatican,
April 13, 2013: Pope Francis on Saturday made one of his first major
decisions by setting up an advisory board of cardinals from around the
world to help him govern the Catholic Church and reform its troubled
central administration and this group included Mumbai's Cardinal Oswald
Gracias.
The
Pope selected a group of eight cardinals who will help him put into
place changes in an administration which has been held responsible for
some of the mishaps and scandals that plagued the eight-year reign of
Pope Benedict XVI before he resigned in February this year.
Anger
at the mostly Italian prelates who run the Curia-the central governing
bodies of the Church was one of the reasons why the cardinals chose the
first non-European pope for 1,300 years and quashed the chances of one
of the front-runners, Milan Archbishop Angelo Scola.
Cardinal
Giuseppe Bertello from Italy, Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa of
Santiago, Chile, Oswald Gracias of Bombay, Reinhard Marx of Munich,
Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kinshasa, Sean Patrick O'Malley of Boston,
George Pell of Sydney, and Oscar Andres Rodriquez Maradiaga of
Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Bishop Marcello Semeraro of Albano, Italy, will
serve as secretary, a Vatican statement said.
The Archdiocese in the city of Mumbai in India is known by the Vatican as the Archdiocese of Bombay.
Who is Cardinal Oswald Gracias?
Oswald
Gracias was born on December 24, 1944 and is a Goan Cardinal of the
Roman Catholic Church. He is the Archbishop of Bombay (Mumbai) and was
appointed by Pope Benedict XVI on 14 October 2006 to the post, and was
made a cardinal in 2007. In 2010, he was elected as the president of the
Catholic Bishops' Conference of India.
After
being ordained a priest in 1970 Gracias went on to study in Rome and
was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay and Titular Bishop of Bladia by
Pope John Paul II on in 1997. Gracias was later named Archbishop of
Agra. He was appointed Archbishop of Bombay in 2006 taking over from
Cardinal Ivan Dias.
In
2010, Cardinal Gracias suffered from a rare cancer and underwent
surgeries and is currently said to be cancer-free though this illness
affected his body making him thin. But when it comes to his role as a
cardinal and priest Cardinal Gracias continues to perform all his
duties.
Vatican City: India's Oswald Gracias was among eight high-ranking cardinals from around the world who were today appointed by Pope Francis in an advisory council to look into ways of reforming the Vatican bureaucracy.
The
council will help the Pope revise the Apostolic Constitution on the
Roman Curia Pastor bonus - the Church administration which helps him in
the daily governance, the Vatican said in a statement. Pope John Paul II
had issued Pastor Bonus in 1988.
"The
Holy Father decided to set up the Council following on from discussions
that emerged during the General Congregations in the lead up to the
Conclave which elected him the 265th Successor to St Peter," it said.
The
group of Cardinals will be coordinated by Rodriguez while Marcello
Semeraro, Bishop of Albano (Italy), will serve as the secretary.
The first meeting of the Council will take place on October 1-3, 2013, the statement said.
Vatican
spokesman Federico Lombardi said the appointments comes exactly one
month after Pope Francis was elected as the leader of the world's 1.2
billion Catholics.
The
council would have no legislative power and that its main function is
to "help" and "advise" the Pope, the 'Vatican Radio' quoted Lombardi as
saying.
The Pope has already been in touch with the selected cardinals, he said.
The
Catholic Church has faced calls for reform in the wake of scandals
involving the sexual abuse of children by priests and allegations of
corruption.
- Agencies
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