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Pope appoints trusted fellow Augustinian to run Vatican’s charity office
- On Thursday, Pope Leo XIV named Archbishop Luis Marín de San Martín as the Vatican's chief almsgiver and prefect of the charity office, selecting a Spanish Augustinian who serves as an undersecretary in the synod office.
- Historically the post was a ceremonial role held by aging diplomats retiring at 75, a model Pope Francis transformed into hands-on charity work enlisting off-duty Swiss Guards to deliver meals and write checks to the needy.
- Cardinal Konrad Krajewski activated the office by installing showers for homeless people around St. Peter's Square, organizing ambulances for Ukraine and COVID-19 vaccines for vulnerable groups, and distributing 1,600 calling cards to migrants on Lampedusa.
- Marín replaces Krajewski, who becomes Archbishop of Łódź in Poland, filling a vacancy that persisted for a year while the appointment signals continuity with Pope Francis's activist model of Vatican charity.
- The office funds its work by producing papal parchments—handmade certificates sold to the faithful for occasions like weddings and baptisms—sustaining the Vatican's hands-on outreach to migrants and homeless people globally.
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Bishop Luis Marín de San Martín was watching from the window of the Augustinian order’s headquarters in Rome when the velvet curtains parted on the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica and a cardinal emerged to announce the name of the new pope.Bishop Luis Marín de San Martín, O.S.A. Credit: Screenshot from @VaticanNewsES YouTube channel.When he heard the words “Robertum Franciscum,” Marín immediately realized the cardinals had chosen a man he knew be…
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Independent EspañolROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Thursday entrusted the Vatican’s works of charity to an Augustinian, which marks a line of continuity with Pope Francis, who elevated that centennial position to a position of action...
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Pope Leo XIV names Augustinian prelate as new prefect of charity dicastery
Pope Leo XIV has named a Spanish Augustinian bishop as the new prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity, reassigning Cardinal Krajewski to serve as archbishop of his home diocese in Poland.
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