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Pope appoints key posts, including nun in development office

Pope Francis attends an audience with members of the "Madonna of tears" community of Treviglio, northern Italy, at the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Saturday, April 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) FILE - Under-secretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Holy See's Dicastery Cardinal Michael Czerny visits refugees who fled the war from neighboring Ukraine in Barabas, Hungary, March 9, 2022. Pope Francis made key appointments in his newly reformed Vatican bureaucracy Saturday April 23, 2022, confirming Czech-born Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny as the new chief of the Vatican department for human development, which groups together the Holy See’s offices responsible for migrants and refugees as well as its COVID-19 response. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File) FILE - Monsignor John Kennedy, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith discipline section, speaks during an interview on the terrace of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith offices at the Vatican, Dec. 9, 2019. Pope Francis made key appointments in his newly reformed Vatican bureaucracy Saturday April 23, 2022, promoting Irish Monsignor John Kennedy to head the discipline section of the newly named Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is the office that handles clergy sexual abuse cases. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
Pope appoints key posts, including nun in development office