Canon lawyer named education head.(prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education)(Brief Article)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: December 3, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

The pope has named a Polish canon lawyer said to have little knowledge of education issues as prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, the Vatican office that supervises church-owned schools and seminaries worldwide.

Archbishop Zenon Grocholewski, 60 replaces italian Cardinal Pio Laghi, whose resignation became official Nov. 15.

The agency Grocholewski will head oversees implementation of Ex Corde Ecclesiae, the pope's controversial 1990 document on Catholic higher education.

Grocholewski, who has worked in the Vatican since 1972, has been prefect of the ...

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