"Lajolo and Kasper, Two New Additions to Team Ratzinger"

Sandro Magister's latest:

"They occupy key positions in the curia, having been appointed by John Paul II. But they fully support the new course charted by pope Ratzinger. Here is what has changed with them in the areas of ecumenism and relations with Islam"

ROMA, June 7, 2006 – Benedict XVI’s new curia isn’t just a matter of promotions and dismissals. It is also determined by the archbishops and cardinals who have deliberately assimilated, in their areas of competency, the new orientations that pope Joseph Ratzinger has impressed upon the Church’s direction.

One of these is archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, secretary for relations with states, or the foreign ministry.

Another is cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity. [More...]