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Austen Ivereigh

Austen Ivereigh is press secretary to Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor. He was formerly deputy editor of the Tablet.

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Through the Vatican white smoke

Pope John Paul II's successor will be chosen by a secretive, top-down process. Austen Ivereigh, press secretary to one of the cardinals involved, calls for reform in the way the church is governed.