OVER THE summer, the Holy See’s Secretariat of State – the body responsible for Vatican diplomacy – lost two prominent English-speaking officials. One of them, Mgr Leo Cushley, was appointed Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, while another, Mgr Philip Whitmore, departed to become rector of Rome’s Venerable English College.  Efforts have been made to fill the gap with the appointment of Mgr Mark Miles as acting head of the English-language section of the Secretariat of State, the role previously held by Archbishop Cushley. Mgr Miles was already working in the English-language section. The 46-year-old is a priest of the Diocese of Gibraltar who went to the English College and then to the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy – better known as the Accademi