VATICAN CITY
Zee News
Vatican City: Pope Benedict XVI on Friday moved to shore up the papal household in the aftermath of the Vatican’s leaks scandal, naming his trusted secretary to also run the office that organizes his schedule.
German Monsignor Georg Gaenswein replaces American prelate James Harvey, who was recently made a cardinal, as papal household prefect. The prefect arranges the pope’s audiences and other events on his schedule and manages the papal household.
For nearly a decade Gaenswein, 56, was personal secretary to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict, at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He continued in that role after the German became pontiff in 2005. The Vatican said Gaenswein would likely remain on as papal secretary, adding the duties of the household prefect to his existing ones.
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