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Pope shuffles Vatican bureaucracy before vacation (AP)

June 30th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI is helped by Monsignor Georg Gaenswein to wear the Saturn as he arrives in St. Peter's square at the Vatican for his weekly general audience, Wednesday, June 30, 2010. The Vatican announced on Wednesday that Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet was named chief to its powerful Congregations for Bishops, which vets bishop appointments around the world, and that Italian Monsignor Rino Fisichella has been tapped to head a new Vatican office to fight secularization and re-evangelize the West. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Preoccupied for months by the clerical sex abuse scandal, the pope on Wednesday shuffled the Vatican bureaucracy before heading off on vacation. His most significant appointment: the head of a new office designed to fight secularism in the West.


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