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  • Cardinal-designate entrusts his new ministries to newly beatified teen

    Cardinal-designate entrusts his new ministries to newly beatified teen

    • Nov 4, 2020

    Cardinal-designate Marcello Semeraro did not have to look far for a heavenly patron to assist him when he took on a new job at the age of 72 and then found out 10 days later that he would be made a cardinal.

    By Cindy Wooden
  • Pope replaces ousted Becciu with key ally

    Pope replaces ousted Becciu with key ally

    • Oct 15, 2020

    Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Marcello Semeraro as the replacement for Cardinal Angelo Becciu as head of the Vatican’s saint-making office after Becciu was fired last month over allegations of embezzlement.

    By Elise Ann Allen
  • Curial aide says reform is about mission, not doctrine

    Curial aide says reform is about mission, not doctrine

    • Jun 27, 2019

    Bishop Marcello Semeraro, who serves as secretary to Pope Francis’s council of cardinal advisors, said Thursday that, doctrine alone is no longer enough to reach an increasingly post-Christian world.

    By Elise Harris
  • Decentralization, simplification heart of curial reform, official says

    Decentralization, simplification heart of curial reform, official says

    • Nov 13, 2018

    Pope Francis’s call for a missionary church that is focused on preaching the Gospel will be the guiding principle of the apostolic constitution that will govern the Roman Curia, the secretary of the pope’s international Council of Cardinals said.

    By Junno Arocho Esteves
  • Claims of heresy over ‘Amoris Laetitia’ are out of place, cardinal says

    Claims of heresy over ‘Amoris Laetitia’ are out of place, cardinal says

    • Mar 5, 2018

    Pope Francis’s exhortation on the family should prompt discussion and even debate, but accusing him and others of heresy is completely out of place, said German Cardinal Walter Kasper.

    By Cindy Wooden
  • Prelate close to pope: Divorced/remarried can be teachers, lectors, godfathers

    Prelate close to pope: Divorced/remarried can be teachers, lectors, godfathers

    • Mar 4, 2018

    Bishop Marcello Semeraro of Albano, Italy, who’s the secretary of Pope Francis’s Council of cardinal advisers, told his priests Friday that “fitting” divorced and remarried Catholics can play roles such as being godfathers and godmothers, religion teachers and lectors at Mass.

    By John L. Allen Jr.
  • Curial reform is a matter of pastoral concern, says secretary to Council of Cardinals

    Curial reform is a matter of pastoral concern, says secretary to Council of Cardinals

    • Feb 15, 2018

    Reform of the Vatican Curia aims to emphasize pastoral care, and should not be seen as a reform that will overturn the whole Curia, a bishop involved in Rome’s Curia reform process has explained.

    By Andrea Gagliarducci
  • Vatican reform process ‘nearly complete,’ C9 member says

    Vatican reform process ‘nearly complete,’ C9 member says

    • Sep 11, 2017

    Bishop Marcello Semeraro said the Council of Cardinal’s work in advising Pope Francis on the reform of the Vatican’s organization and church governance – describing it as a three-step process of “listening” to the contributions from the bishops, the Roman Curia and “many people who have written,” reflecting on those proposals and checking them over – is almost done.

    By Junno Arocho Esteves

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