The Vatican believes that its top aid agency, Caritas
Internationalis, needs new leadership to build a stronger Catholic
identity within the organisation.
“I think that each of us has limits. We can be competent in
organising but lack some qualities for co-ordinating work or for
reinforcing the Catholic identity,” said Cardinal Robert Sarah, who
oversees the agency’s work through his role as president of the
Pontifical Council Cor Unum, in reference to current Caritas
secretary-general Lesley-Anne Knight, CNA reports.
The Rome-based Caritas recently announced that the Vatican would not
permit Knight to run for re-election to the position this May.
Cardinal Sarah said: “we must recognize the work accomplished by Mrs
Knight, but for today’s new challenges we need someone else.”
He added
that it is “normal that for new challenges other people are chosen that
the confederation presents.”