Pope Leo has named an Australian bishop to lead the Vatican office that oversees the Catholic Church’s extensive legal system, adding global diversity to the pontiff’s close team of advisors in his second major Vatican appointment.
Dame Helen Mirren has been made a member of the Order of the Star of Italy, the highest honour the Italian Republic can award to foreign nationals, by President Sergio Mattarella.
Italians will vote in a two-day referendum on whether to make changes to its judicial system, a key project of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing government.
