Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and Freising delivers a speech during a commemoration ceremony to mark the ten-year anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001, in Munich September 11, 2011. REUTERS/Michael Dalder
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Catholic bishops elected Munich Cardinal Reinhard Marx their new leader on Wednesday, picking a close associate of Pope Francis already working on Vatican reform to also guide them at home.
Marx's election in Germany, one of the richest and most influential national churches in the 1.2-billion-strong Roman Catholic world, enhanced his status among the men the pope has called on to help him revitalise the Catholic Church.
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