New pope must lead reforms after scandals

UNITED KINGDOM
SBS (Australia)

Reform should be the top priority for the new Pope, says the former head of the Catholic church in the UK.

The next pope must drive through reforms in the wake of scandals that have hit the Roman Catholic Church, the former head of the Church in England and Wales says.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the former archbishop of Westminster, said Pope Benedict XVI’s successor must be “capable of the kind of reform and renewal that are needed in the church”.

“The pope’s own house has got to be put in order,” Murphy-O’Connor told a press conference in London.

“As you know there have been troubles in recent years. These have got to be addressed.”

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