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Monsignor Alberto Royo Mejía is the promoter of the faith in the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. His current function is, in fact, the same one that was formerly performed by the so-called “devil’s advocate” in the canonization processes.
When and why was this name changed? Who exactly is, in effect, the “devil’s advocate”?
ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, was able to speak in Rome with Royo, who holds a doctorate in canon law and is a priest of the Diocese of Getafe in Spain, where he has been judicial vicar, episcopal delegate for the causes of saints, and pastor of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in the town of Parla, south of Madrid.
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When and why was this name changed? Who exactly is, in effect, the “devil’s advocate”?
ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, was able to speak in Rome with Royo, who holds a doctorate in canon law and is a priest of the Diocese of Getafe in Spain, where he has been judicial vicar, episcopal delegate for the causes of saints, and pastor of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in the town of Parla, south of Madrid.
Origin of the term
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Meet the modern-day ‘devil’s advocate’ in the process of canonization
Monsignor Alberto Royo Mejía is the promoter of the faith in the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.
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