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• Chinese cardinal to be a chairman at Catholic synod
• Pope convenes cardinals to discuss leak scandal
• Vatican hires U.S. journalist to help media relations

Chinese cardinal to be a chairman at Catholic synod Posted: 30 Jun 2012 11:24 AM PDT Cardinal John Tong Hon, the bishop of Hong Kong, will be one of the three delegated chairmen at the synod of bishops in the Vatican in October, the Vatican announced Saturday.

Pope convenes cardinals to discuss leak scandal Posted: 23 Jun 2012 02:35 PM PDT Pope Benedict XVI convened a special meeting of cardinals Saturday for advice on how to deal with the Vatican's leaked documents scandal — another sign of the damage the leaks have done to trust in the Holy See's governance.

Vatican hires U.S. journalist to help media relations Posted: 23 Jun 2012 01:42 PM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican, stung by communications blunders and mired in a leaks scandal, has hired an American journalist from Fox News and member of the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei to help improve its relations with the media. The TV journalist, Greg Burke, and the Vatican on Saturday confirmed what a senior Church source had earlier told Reuters. Burke, Fox's Rome-based roving correspondent for Europe and the Middle East, will assume the new post of "senior communications adviser" to the Secretariat of State, the key department in the Vatican's central bureaucracy. ...

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