Pope sets up Vatican reform body

VATICAN CITY (AFP) - Pope Francis set up a group of cardinals to advise him on church governance and study reforms, marking the new pontiff's first step toward reforming the Catholic Church's opaque admin. Francis had named eight cardinals from around the world to the group that will examine updating the constitution of the Roman Curia - the Church admin which needs reform. The cardinals include two Europeans (Giuseppe Bertello, Italy and Reinhard Marx , Germany), two from Latin America (Francisco Javier Ossa, Chile and Oscar Andres Maradiaga, Honduras), one from N America (Sean O'Malley, Boston), one from Asia (Oswald, India), one African (Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Congo) and one Aussie (George Pell, Sydney).

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