A mini reshuffle has led to the appointment of an English prelate to a senior post within the Secretariat of State. The move reflects a growing trend Pope Francis showed his faith once again in the “God of surprises” with the appointment last Saturday of Archbishop Paul Gallagher as the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States, the equivalent of a Vatican foreign minister. The Liverpool-born archbishop, currently nuncio to Australia, will be the first Englishman – and native English speaker – to hold such a position (unless you count British-born Spaniard Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val, a former Secretary of State).He is not the first to be summoned from Australia to the heart of the Holy See’s operation in recent months. Earlier this year, Cardin