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 | Jan 28, 2022 | Benedict XVI, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Catholic News Service, clerical sexual abuse, News, Vatican | 0 |
A cardinal who had served as an aide to now-retired Pope Benedict XVI and was present for his meetings with survivors of clerical sexual abuse said he “never found in him any shadow or attempt to hide or minimize anything.”
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 | Jan 15, 2021 | Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, Church in Europe, Donald Trump, News, Pope Francis, United States, US Capitol | 0 |
Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn Friday weighed in on the breach of the US Capitol by pro-Trump protesters that took place nearly 10 days ago, condemning the violence and the lies he said caused the riot in the first place.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 3, 2020 | Austria, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, News, Pope Francis, Terrorism | 0 |
Pope Francis and Austrian church leaders expressed dismay and sorrow after terrorists attack that left at least five dead in central Vienna, and they urged citizens to uphold key values of tolerance and respect.
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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