His Holiness Pope Francis appointed His Grace Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta as adjunct secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. According to a Nov. 13 announcement, His Excellency Scicluna, 59, will take up the Vatican position while remaining head of the Archdiocese of Malta, which he has led since February 2015.
The archbishop’s appointment as adjunct secretary makes him joint second in command of the CDF with secretary Archbishop His Grace Giacomo Morandi under prefect His Eminence Cardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer. Among the congregation’s leaders is also under-secretary Fr. Matteo Visioli. Before the start of his Vatican career, Scicluna was defender of the bond and promoter of justice at the Metropolitan Court of Malta, and a professor of pastoral theology and canon law at Malta’s archdiocesan seminary.
His Grace Archbishop Scicluna, who served as the Vatican’s sexual abuse prosecutor before becoming a bishop in 2012, has continued to have a high-profile role in addressing clerical sexual abuse. He was appointed by His Holiness Pope Francis to conduct an apostolic visitation of the Chilean abuse crisis earlier this year.
Source: CNA
