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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ap Correspondent

Pope Leo XIV picks Australian church lawyer as Vatican’s top legal expert

Pope Leo XIV has appointed an Australian church lawyer, Bishop Anthony Randazzo, to a pivotal Vatican legal position, placing an individual with direct experience of the Catholic Church’s profound abuse crisis into a powerful role.

Bishop Randazzo, 59, will now serve as prefect of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts, effectively becoming the Holy See’s chief legal expert.

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