Grabois was appointed member of the “partner ministry …

Social leader Juan Grabois has been appointed a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Integral Human Development, considered to be the “social and environmental ministry” of the Holy See under which the programs of application of the encyclical Laudato si ‘and the post-pandemic commission.

Grabois, 37, was proposed as a consultant member by the head of the Dicastery, Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, according to the Telam agency. The appointment of the lawyer and head of social movements was then approved by Pope Francis. The other members of the Dicastery created by the Pope in 2016 are, for example, the cardinals of Poland Konrad Krajewski and Peru, Pedro Barreto, among the religious, and the laity Renato Lima de Oliveira and Sean Callahan.

Turkson had previously appointed Grabois as a consultant to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, one of the institutions which, with the signing of the papal decree of August 2016, derived from January 1, 2017 to the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development.