Msgr. Patrick Descourtieux - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 04 Apr 2019 04:02:43 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Msgr. Patrick Descourtieux - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pope appoints expert to lead Society of St. Pius X talks https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/04/04/pope-sspx-descourtieux/ Thu, 04 Apr 2019 06:55:55 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=116609 Pope Francis appointed on Saturday a French Vatican official to oversee the care of religious communities of a traditional nature, and to assist with the regularization of the Society of St. Pius X. Msgr. Patrick Descourtieux becomes head of the section within the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith dealing with such communities. He Read more

Pope appoints expert to lead Society of St. Pius X talks... Read more]]> Pope Francis appointed on Saturday a French Vatican official to oversee the care of religious communities of a traditional nature, and to assist with the regularization of the Society of St. Pius X.

Msgr. Patrick Descourtieux becomes head of the section within the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith dealing with such communities.

He effectively takes over the responsibilities of Archbishop Guido Pozzo who was Secretary of the Pontifical Commission ‘Ecclesia Dei' which the Pope abolished through a motu proprio (papal decree) in January.

A distinguished expert in patristics at the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum in Rome, Msgr. Descourtieux worked for ten years as an official at the pontifical commission.

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