AUSTRALIA
ABC News
Cardinal George Pell says he would welcome a reduction in Italy’s influence over the Vatican, as he prepares to join a committee appointed by the pope to reform the church’s administrative body.
The Archbishop of Sydney has been selected by Pope Francis to sit on a committee that will look to reform the Curia, the administrative branch of the church.
Cardinal Pell, who is flying to Rome tonight for preliminary meetings, said the committee will lead to greater discipline in the upper echelons of the church, alluding to last year’s leaking of secret papal documents by Emeritus Pope Benedict’s butler.
A cardinal from each continent has been selected to form the committee, a move that Cardinal Pell says is reflective of the church’s changing demographics.
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