Bishop plucked from Australian town to lead Vatican legal wing

SYDNEY — An Australian bishop will serve as the pope’s top legal advisor after he was plucked from a little-known beachside diocese to fill a crucial Vatican role, Catholic Church officials said. Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop of Broken Bay Anthony Randazzo to lead the Vatican’s legal wing, the Holy See Press Office said on Wednesday. As head of the church’s Dicastery for Legislative Texts, Randazzo will oversee a powerful body charged with “safeguarding” canon law. READ: Vatican court orders embezzlement re-trial for cardinal Born in Australia to Italian migrants, Randazzo has spent the past five years tending to […]... Keep on reading: Bishop plucked from Australian town to lead Vatican legal wing

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