BOSTON (MA)
Boston Herald
Sunday, April 14, 2013
By:
Gary J. Remal
, Christine McConville
Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley could emerge as a key player in the Vatican as he assumes a potentially game-changing role on a new committee charged with advising Pope Francis on worldwide Catholic church reforms.
“Potentially this is an earthquake rather than a tremor,” said John L. Allen Jr. of National Catholic Reporter.
“This has the making of the biggest real-world decentralization of the church since the Second Vatican Council,” Allen said..
O’Malley was appointed to the elite new eight-cardinal Vatican Advisory Council yesterday.
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