Vaican's next ecumenical and inter-religious officer

Whispers in the Loggia: "On top of the Legion news, Tornielli added in the aforementioned post that 'the coming days will also see [formal] notice of other appointments' already reported upon, listing those of Quebec's Cardinal Marc Ouellet as the next prefect of the all-powerful Congregation for Bishops; the Swiss Bishop Kurt Koch of Basel, 60, to succeed Cardinal Walter Kasper as the Vatican's top ecumenist, leading the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, and -- as the Il Giornale scribe broke in April -- the naming of Archbishop Rino Fisichella, currently head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, as the founding president of a new 'Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization,' the first Curial dicastery to be created in a quarter-century."