From Vatican Radio:
On Thursday Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Cardinal Claudio Hummes from the post of Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy. The Holy Father has appointed Italian Archbishop Mauro Piacenza to succeed Cardinal Hummes to the position.
Also Thursday Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Cardinal Paul Cordes from the post of President of Cor Unum. He will be succeeded by Guinean Archbishop Robert Sarah, formerly secretary at the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples.
Cordialiter mentions that the new Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy is a "Sirian" prelate (having been educated in the seminary of Genoa in the time of Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, who also ordained him a priest). Msgr. Piacenza (left) had been the Secretary of the same Congregation that he will now head. (It is unusual for a Secretary of a Vatican Congregation to be made its Prefect.)
On Thursday Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Cardinal Claudio Hummes from the post of Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy. The Holy Father has appointed Italian Archbishop Mauro Piacenza to succeed Cardinal Hummes to the position.
Also Thursday Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Cardinal Paul Cordes from the post of President of Cor Unum. He will be succeeded by Guinean Archbishop Robert Sarah, formerly secretary at the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples.
Cordialiter mentions that the new Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy is a "Sirian" prelate (having been educated in the seminary of Genoa in the time of Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, who also ordained him a priest). Msgr. Piacenza (left) had been the Secretary of the same Congregation that he will now head. (It is unusual for a Secretary of a Vatican Congregation to be made its Prefect.)Archbishop Piacenza authored the following articles: The Casing of the Eucharist and Stones, Sounds, Colours of the House of God.
