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New Prefect of CDW: Cardinal Sarah

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New Prefect of CDW: Cardinal Sarah

As reported in today's just-released Vatican bulletin:

Pope Francis has appointed Robert Card. Sarah, until now President of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum", as the new Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

Cardinal Sarah had distinguished himself as one of the strongest conservative voices at the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops this year.

Also, as previously predicted on La Croix and other sources, a meeting between Pope Francis and the heads of dicasteries of the Roman Curia took place today.

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From a 2012 address on the 50th anniversary of Vatican II, in Lyon (France):

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Abramo
The usual Vatican tactic: Sarah has a licentiate from the Biblicum and very little expertise in liturgy. His closest collaborators were chosen ahead of him and are liturgists - a classical case of authority without competence. Difficult to run a business in this way.
Dr Bobus
Well, so much for the Abp Marini to the SCDW rumors . . . and fear.