VATICAN CITY
The Age (Australia)
Rome
June 26, 2012
A FOX News reporter has been chosen by Pope Benedict XVI to sort out the Vatican’s media strategy amid signs that the 85-year-old pontiff is plotting a radical shake-up at the top of the Roman Catholic church.
Greg Burke, a 52-year-old member of the conservative Opus Dei fellowship, is to take a job in the Vatican’s secretariat of state. He said: ”I feel exactly the way I felt in Lebanon at the start of the 2006 war – nervous and excited at the same time.”
Burke, who is Rome correspondent for Fox television, said he had twice refused a similar offer from the Vatican ”because I had a really great job”.
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