Cardinal Sandoval to be Papal Delegate to the Legion?

The news agency APCOM is reporting that Mexican Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez is tipped to be the "papal delegate" to the Legionaries of Christ.

The Archbishop of Guadalajara, 77, had a recent private audience with the Holy Father and is expected to be appointed before the Vatican's summer recess. The news agency notes he is close to retirement and therefore will have the time to undertake such a position, but it says other candidates may be chosen instead.

The delegate's duty would be to oversee what is likely to be a long process of restructuring of the religious congregation, redefining its charism, reviewing its exercise of authority, raising its mission, and investigating its management of finances.

The current leadership will be answerable to their new superior.

The final decisions will be left to Pope Benedict.