Appointments: Boston Priest New Cdf Promoter of Justice

Vatican Radio
December 21, 2012

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(Vatican Radio) On Saturday Pope Benedict XVI appointed Boston native Rev. Robert W. Oliver, B.H., Promoter of Justice at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).

He takes over from Mons. Charles J. Scicluna, who was recently appointed Auxiliary bishop of Malta.

Rev. Oliver (centre in photo) is a Professor of Canon Law & Systematic Theology at St. John’s Seminary in the Archdiocese of Boston and formerly Promoter of Justice at the Boston Archdiocese Tribunal.

The Promoter of Justice is in short the CDF’s Chief Prosecutor. According to Canon 1430 of Canon Law, “A promoter of justice is to be appointed . . . for contentious cases which can endanger the public good and for penal cases; the promoter of justice is bound by office to provide for the public good.