MALTA
Times of Malta
The Pope’s personal secretary, Gozitan Mgr Alfred Xuereb, has been appointed prelate secretary general of the Vatican’s new Secretariat for the Economy.
The decree was signed by Pope Francis this morning together with the decree appointing Cardinal George Pell prefect of the same secretariat.
The secretariat’s responsibility includes handling all economic and administrative business of the Holy See and the Vatican state. It has the same level of duties and rights as that of a State Secretariat.
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