After pursuing further studies at both Oxford and Cambridge, Cardinal Grech returned to Rome, where he served as an expert at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and taught at several ...

Cardinal Grech said Cardinal Ratzinger was misunderstood in Rome, too, where, as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he had a reputation of being rigid and inflexible. Pope ...

Cardinal Mario Grech has asked Catholics around the world to pray a blessing and special intercessory prayers for the Synod on Synodality. Cardinal Grech, general secretary of the synod, sent a letter ...

Würzburg Cardinal Grech, Secretary General of the General Secretariat of the Synod, was the highest-ranking Vatican ...

In a homily in Prague’s St. Vitus Cathedral on Feb. 9, Cardinal Mario Grech noted that some have wrongly understood the synod as ‘a battle of the conservatives against the liberals.’ Four cardinals, ...

Born on February 20, 1957, in Qala, Gozo (Malta), Grech was ordained a priest in 1984. He earned degrees in civil and canon law from the Pontifical Lateran University and later completed a doctorate ...

The Maltese cardinal, who was appointed to his present role in September 2020, said that the preparatory document recalled the Second Vatican Council’s desire to “return to the sources” of ...

VATICAN CITY — In a significant appointment in light of Pope Francis’ emphasis on synodality, Bishop Mario Grech of Gozo, Malta, was named today as the general pro-secretary of the Synod of Bishops, ...