Francis Appoints Lay Monk as Montecassino Abbot
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Highly unusual: Fallica is not a priest.
Last autumn, Francis rejected Father Mauritius Wilde, 56, who the monks of Montecassino had elected as their abbot. The Vatican gave some excuses, e.g. that Wilde was not an Italian.
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