Vatican: Cardinal Herranz to Chair " Commission" on Leaked Documents

The Rome
April 25, 2012

http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/the-vatican/detail/articolo/vaticano-vatican-14658/

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The Vatican Secretary of State has stated that the Commission will "act at all levels on the strength of its pontifical mandate"

The Commission of Cardinals, created by order of the Holy Father, met on 24 April to decide on a method and set a timetable for its activities. The Cardinal's Commission, which is chaired by Cardinal Julian Herranz and include Josef Tomko and Salvatore De Giorgi as members is setting to work straight away "to undertake an authoritative investigation and throw light on" the "recent leaks of reserved and confidential [Vatican] documents on television, in newspapers and in other communications media."

The members of the Commission are all elderly cardinals with a great deal of experience: Herranz is a member of the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei and was formerly president of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts ; Tomko has worked as Secretary General for the World Synod of Bishops and for the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Bishops and De Giorgi was General Assistant of Italian Catholic Action and formerly Archbishop of Palermo, Sicily.