Pope names two U.S. cardinals, Altoona bishop to Vatican supreme court June 21, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News U.S. Cardinal James M. Harvey speaks as he concelebrates Mass with U.S. bishops at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome in this Dec. 10, 2019, file photo. Pope Francis has named Cardinal Harvey to be among the 12 members of the Apostolic Signature, the Vatican’s highest court. (CNS photo/Carol Glatz) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has named U.S. Cardinals Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, and James M. Harvey, archpriest of Rome’s Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, to be members of the Vatican’s supreme court. The pope also nominated Bishop Mark L. Bartchak of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to be among the 12 members of the Apostolic Signature, the Vatican’s highest court. Members of the Apostolic Signature serve as judges in the tribunal’s cases, which mainly involve appeals of lower-court decisions or of administrative decisions by other offices of the Holy See. The appeals involve everything from challenges to the decisions of marriage tribunals to recourse against the dismissal of a religious, the transfer of a parish priest, the restriction of a priest’s ministry, removal of ministerial faculties, renovation of a parish church and dismissal from a teaching position. The other eight members, named June 21, are: Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops; Archbishop Cyril Vasil, apostolic administrator for Eastern Catholics in Košice, Slovakia; Archbishop Celso Morga Iruzubieta of Mérida-Badajoz, Spain; Auxiliary Bishop Christoph Hegge of Münster, Germany; Auxiliary Bishop Dominicus Meier of Paderborn, Germany; Bishop Andrea Migliavacca of San Miniato, Italy; Bishop Pierantonio Pavanello of Adria-Rovigo, Italy; and Bishop Egidio Miragoli of Mondovì, Italy. Pope Francis also named seven leading professors of canon law to be consultants to the Apostolic Signature, including William Daniel, who teaches at The Catholic University of America, Washington. Also see Pope Leo XIV says Christians in the Middle East offer a ‘precious testimony for the entire Church’ Catholics cannot be ‘unengaged spectators’ amid current events, pope says A long-awaited reckoning: A timeline of the Father Marko Rupnik case Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document Pope Leo says, ‘It is not yet too late’ to care for creation Never let injustice, evil in the world corrupt your heart, pope tells faithful Copyright © 2021 Catholic News Service/U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Print
