UNITED KINGDOM
The Guardian
Severin Carrell and Sam Jones
The Guardian, Tuesday 26 February 2013
Senior Roman Catholics including the former archbishop of Westminster have urged the new pope to radically reform the Vatican in the wake of the resignation of the Scottish cardinal Keith O’Brien and other scandals.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, former head of the Catholic church in England and Wales, said he believed the pope’s “own house has to be put in order”.
He added that many bishops and cardinals believed the entire church should be reformed by Benedict XVI’s successor, with the pope taking a much less dominant role in the church, to give a greater say to its bishops. “It is not just the pope who rules the church,” he said. “It is the pope with the bishops.
“There is no doubt that today there needs to be renewal in the church, reform in the church and especially of government,” he told a news conference in London. “How is this next pope going to govern the church?”
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