With Sodano’s passing, the Vatican’s old guard is down but hardly out
For critics, Cardinal Angelo Sodano was almost the living embodiment of why the old guard’s grip on power ought to be broken.
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by bcadmin | May 29, 2022 | Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, Chile, clerical sexual abuse, Father Marcial Maciel, lead, News, News Analysis, Obituary, Secretariat of State | 0 |
For critics, Cardinal Angelo Sodano was almost the living embodiment of why the old guard’s grip on power ought to be broken.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 11, 2021 | 9/11, Afghanistan, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Iraq, lead, News, News Analysis, St. John Paul II, Twin Towers, Vatican diplomacy | 0 |
Two US military campaigns were a direct result of the 9/11 attacks, in Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which resulted either in failure or frustration. In both cases, Vatican diplomats would be justified in saying, “Don’t say we didn’t tell you so.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 31, 2021 | Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Cardinal Blaise Cupich, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, President Joe Biden, St. John Paul II, USCCB | 0 |
Over the centuries, popes have always found plenty of ways to speak without using words, especially when words might be inconvenient or hard to take back.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 20, 2020 | Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, Cardinal Joseph Zen, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, clerical sexual abuse, College of Cardinals, lead, News, News Analysis, Vatican-China | 0 |
To call a public blast by one cardinal against another “rare” is to traffic in understatement. To find any sort of precedent we have to go back a decade, and a public conflict between Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna, Austria, and Italian Cardinal Angelo Sodano.
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