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Ex-Knights of Malta leader to defy papal order and attend succession meeting
Source: Reuters
Ex-Knights of Malta leader to defy papal order and attend succession meeting
Reuters in Rome
Wednesday 26 April 2017 17.47 BST
The ousted grand master of the Catholic charity Knights of Malta will attend a meeting that could elect his successor, the group has said, in direct defiance of Pope Francis’s order for him to stay away.
A spokesperson for the Knights said Matthew Festing, who resigned on 24 January, had informed the group that he would come to the meeting this Saturday at its headquarters in Rome.
It was not clear whether he would stand for re-election, as some of his supporters have urged him to do.
On 15 April, Archbishop Angelo Becciu, the Vatican’s deputy secretary of state whom the pope named “special delegate” to the ancient chivalric group, ordered Festing not to travel to Rome for the election.
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Reuters in Rome
Wednesday 26 April 2017 17.47 BST
The ousted grand master of the Catholic charity Knights of Malta will attend a meeting that could elect his successor, the group has said, in direct defiance of Pope Francis’s order for him to stay away.
A spokesperson for the Knights said Matthew Festing, who resigned on 24 January, had informed the group that he would come to the meeting this Saturday at its headquarters in Rome.
It was not clear whether he would stand for re-election, as some of his supporters have urged him to do.
On 15 April, Archbishop Angelo Becciu, the Vatican’s deputy secretary of state whom the pope named “special delegate” to the ancient chivalric group, ordered Festing not to travel to Rome for the election.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/26/kings-malta-charity-leader-matthew-festing-pope-francis-order-succession-meeting
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