Appointments: Boston priest new CDF Promoter of Justice

VATICAN CITY
Vatican Radio

(Vatican Radio) On Saturday Pope Benedict XVI appointed Boston native Rev. Robert W. Oliver, B.H., Promoter of Justice at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).

He takes over from Mons. Charles J. Scicluna, who was recently appointed Auxiliary bishop of Malta.

Rev. Oliver (centre in photo) is a Professor of Canon Law & Systematic Theology at St. John’s Seminary in the Archdiocese of Boston and formerly Promoter of Justice at the Boston Archdiocese Tribunal.

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