The Cardinals Of The Roman Catholic Church

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Smart money is on the next Pope being an Italian:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11768191

 

Worth quoting at length:

 

 

 

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"However, 13 of the new cardinal-electors currently work or have worked in the Roman Curia - the Vatican's bureaucracy - and Curial officials now make up nearly a third of all cardinal-electors, prompting speculation the next Pope is likely to be a "Roman", if not an Italian.

 

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As dean of the college after the 2005 death of John Paul II, then-Cardinal Ratzinger heard complaints from his fellow electors that they did not know each other particularly well.

 

Once elected Pope, Benedict XVI introduced discussion sessions at consistories to allow the whole college to air their concerns and priorities.

 

Hence this consistory will include a day's debate on issues the Pope deems most pressing for the Church's future. These include clerical sex abuse, Catholic liturgy, challenges to religious freedom and the outreach project for Anglicans seeking to convert to Catholicism.

 

Members of the college will be watching to see who impresses during these "open mic" sessions - thereby improving their credentials as papabile - or papal contenders.

 

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Although he has been Pope for less than six years, Benedict XVI has named about two-fifths of cardinal-electors.

 

By 2012, the German Pope is expected to have chosen two-thirds of the men who would pick his successor - the majority required to elect a pope."

 

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Unfortunately, none of these new guys appear to have any startling health issues and it is very evident after his two recent trips that Herr Ratzinger is going strong (and has held his job through the worst of the kiddy-fiddley scandal) so, barring him having a sudden heart attack or stroke, I think 2011 is going to be a sleeper year for me.

 

Quite a few cardinal electors will be reaching the age of 80, making them ineligible to vote for a future Pope, but only one, Ruini (discussed above) was ever a contender for the top job himself. The rest are all unknowns.

 

Of the non-electors, there are some very elderly ones still around. Some of these blokes should be low-hanging fruit for DeathList but they aren't that exciting in the overall scheme of things since they can no longer vote for Pope:

 

 

1914

Ersilio Tonini

Kazimierz Świątek

 

1916

Fiorenzo Angelini

 

1917

Domenico Bartolucci

 

1918

Giovanni Canestri

Giovanni Cheli

 

1920

Simon Ignatius Pimenta

José Tomás Sánchez

Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir

Urbano Navarrete Cortés, S.J. DEAD

Jean Honoré

Eugênio de Araújo Sales

 

1921

Roberto Tucci, S.J.

Paulo Evaristo Arns, O.F.M.

Stanislaw Kazimierz Nagy, S.C.I.

Carlo Furno

 

1922

Virgilio Noè

Georges-Marie-Martin Cottier, O.P.

Gilberto Agustoni

Lorenzo Antonetti

Luis Aponte Martínez

Roger Etchegaray

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Cardinal Urbano Navarrete Cortés, of S.J., has died on November 22, aged 90.

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Retired Cardinal Michele Giordano has died aged 80, of undisclosed causes.

 

He was acquitted of financing a loan-sharking operation (to the tune of $800,000) linked to his family, then later acquitted of misappropriating $500K of church funds.

 

If there is anyone/anything up there, he'd better have been telling the truth!

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Benedict made 24 new cardinals at the weekend, 10 of them Italian, leading to speculation among Vatican observers that the next Pope could be from Italy.

 

The most likely contenders include Dionigi Tettamanzi, the Archbishop of Milan; Angelo Bagnasco, the head of the Italian bishops' conference; and Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, the president of the pontifical council for culture.

 

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Okay - my thoughts. Yes, Ravasi seems to be a very good chance and is probably the most likely of the Italians now that Angelo Scola is politically screwed. Ravasi is head of the Vatican's cultural department and seems to actually be one of the better cardinals out there, though that isn't saying much. He and Antonelli are probably the best two Italians if there is to be any chance of even small reforms.

 

 

One of the world's most respected "Vatican watchers" is citing Ravasi as a major contender to be the next pope:

 

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Spotting contenders for the papacy and choosing a Quiz Bowl team are obviously very different things, but more and more they have one thing in common: Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture, looks like a plausible candidate to make both cuts.

 

Certainly there’s never been any doubt about the intellectual chops of the 68-year-old Italian prelate, whom Pope Benedict XVI recently inducted into the College of Cardinals during a Nov. 20 consistory. Whenever Ravasi appears in public, he coughs up literary allusions the way two-pack-a-day smokers do phlegm – regularly, and without thinking about it.

 

On a Friday evening in early December, for instance, Ravasi offered an impromptu welcome for a lecture at the Vatican by Cambridge cosmologist John Barrow. In the course of just fifteen minutes, Ravasi dropped ten references, including Nietzsche, Kant, Levi-Strauss, Stephen J. Gould, and Isaac Newton – a pace of one quotation every minute and a half. For bonus points, Ravasi added that he’s read not only Newton’s best-known works, but also his obscure commentary on the Book of Revelations – which, Ravasi laughingly said, was “awful”.

 

(A Biblical scholar by training, Ravasi is able to range so widely in part because he only sleeps about four hours every night, and he generally fills that extra time with books.)

 

Like the smart kid in the class often does, Ravasi has the courage of his convictions. Last year he hosted a major Vatican conference on evolution, inviting scientists and believers into dialogue – despite what he calls the “terror” of some in the Vatican, who felt it might open doors better left closed. (Ravasi says that Benedict XVI backed him on the project “completely”.)

 

Some observers have suggested that one day, those same qualities could make Ravasi an attractive papal candidate.

 

Conventional wisdom has it that whenever the cardinals next gather for a conclave, they will be looking to fix at least two perceived problems: An administrative mess in the Vatican, and chronic PR woes. Depending on how things break, Ravasi could seem a solution on both fronts.

 

For one thing, there’s still a tendency in clerical circles to assume that Italians carry a special gene for church governance. Ravasi is a Vatican “insider,” but one not associated with any recent crisis. Rumors in Rome currently peg Ravasi as a candidate to succeed Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi in Milan, and if that were to happen, it could further assuage any doubts about his managerial abilities.

 

In PR terms, Ravasi always seems to have the right touch. He’s funny, open, a man of Christian tradition fully at home in the post-modern world. He’ll have the chance to strut that stuff again next March, when Ravasi hosts a major dialogue in Paris between believers and non-believers, involving the Sorbonne, UNESCO, and the Academie Francaise, in the first major event of a project he’s calling “The Courtyard of the Gentiles.” (Ever the Biblista, Ravasi takes the name from the space in the ancient temple in Jerusalem which was not exclusively reserved to Israelites, but open to everyone.)

 

... and so on...

 

Source: http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/vatic...ime-pr-doldrums

 

 

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He is only young, so it might be a long time between drinks for DeathList if he is made pope in the next few years but what about sleep deprivation? How is life span affected if someone is a workaholic who only sleeps four hours a night for extended periods of time?

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"CNA Catholic News Agency reported today that Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, recently stated he has been the target of death threats since 2009. He believes the threats are from supporters of the country's deposed President Manuel Zelaya.

 

The cardinal stated on January 6 that he has been receiving death threats from individuals who have labeled him a "golpista" (supporter of the coup). The cardinal then told Honduras' Channel 10 that soon after the Honduran bishops' conference issued a statement about the intentions of then-President Zelaya to hold a referendum to draft a new constitution, he "had already become the target of death threats".

 

He (the cardinal) added that the threats "have been continuous" since June 2009. "We had all of the pertinent information," Cardinal Maradiaga said, "and we issued a statement, which I read as president (of the Honduran Episcopal Conference), on Saturday," (June 27, 2009, the day before Zelaya was removed from office). The followers of the deposed president form the "Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular", coordinated by Mr. Zelaya from his exile in the Domincian Republic."

 

Source: http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/additions-11.htm (January 11 entry)

 

Maradiaga is one of the more high profile cardinals and a mate of Bono.

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DJL, do you think you could take Cardinals as a specialist subject on Mastermind?

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"domradio.de - Katholische Nachrichten announced today that Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky is seriously ill. He will turn 75 next week but all celebrations were canceled today. The cardinal has been in the hospital since Monday January 24, when he had to undergo an emergency surgery. Last night a second surgery was necessary. No information about the reasons for the operations and the cardinal's condition have been given yet."

 

Source: http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/additions-11.htm (January 30 entry)

 

Sterzinsky is a fairly minor cardinal. The most interesting thing about him is that he is German, like the pope, so I wonder where he sits factionally with his Supreme Pontiff?

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"domradio.de - Katholische Nachrichten announced today that Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky is seriously ill. He will turn 75 next week but all celebrations were canceled today. The cardinal has been in the hospital since Monday January 24, when he had to undergo an emergency surgery. Last night a second surgery was necessary. No information about the reasons for the operations and the cardinal's condition have been given yet."

 

Source: http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/additions-11.htm (January 30 entry)

 

Sterzinsky is a fairly minor cardinal. The most interesting thing about him is that he is German, like the pope, so I wonder where he sits factionally with his Supreme Pontiff?

 

Not sounding good for him:

 

February 8

On the occasion of his 75th birthday of Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky, archbishop of Berlin, Germany, on February 9, 2011, the archdiocese issued the following bulletin. "On 9 February 2011 Cardinal Sterzinsky will celebrate his 75th birthday. No celebrations are possible, as Cardinal Sterzinsky still is in the hospital. His health has not improved.

 

"It's a good habit, to wish a good health on the occasion of a birthday" said Vicar General Monsignor Ronald Rother. "But it's not possible to deliver this wishes personally. I therefore have my prayers and our desires in prayer before God, and I invite you all together with the whole archdiocese to pray for the Cardinal. We especially thank God that Cardinal Sterzinsky has headed our archdiocese now for more than 20 years."

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Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, by all accounts one of the most honest and nicest cardinals, is going to retire due to ill health, defying the normal custom amongst Eastern Rite Catholics that they serve for life:

 

"A homespun, grandfatherly, particularly candid figure elected in early 2001... the now 77 year-old major archbishop (above) has experienced years of difficult health, most prominently a failing eyesight that's forced him to perform the church's intricate rites from memory (a task he's pulled off so impeccably you'd never know the difference)."

 

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While patriarchal resignations are rare, speculation over recent weeks has indicated that the head of the second-largest Eastern fold -- 90 year-old Cardinal Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir, patriarch of the Beirut-based Maronite church since 1986 -- was likewise moving to retire."

 

 

Full story: http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/20...major-exit.html

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"domradio.de - Katholische Nachrichten announced today that Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky is seriously ill. He will turn 75 next week but all celebrations were canceled today. The cardinal has been in the hospital since Monday January 24, when he had to undergo an emergency surgery. Last night a second surgery was necessary. No information about the reasons for the operations and the cardinal's condition have been given yet."

 

Source: http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/additions-11.htm (January 30 entry)

 

Sterzinsky is a fairly minor cardinal. The most interesting thing about him is that he is German, like the pope, so I wonder where he sits factionally with his Supreme Pontiff?

 

Not sounding good for him:

 

February 8

On the occasion of his 75th birthday of Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky, archbishop of Berlin, Germany, on February 9, 2011, the archdiocese issued the following bulletin. "On 9 February 2011 Cardinal Sterzinsky will celebrate his 75th birthday. No celebrations are possible, as Cardinal Sterzinsky still is in the hospital. His health has not improved.

 

"It's a good habit, to wish a good health on the occasion of a birthday" said Vicar General Monsignor Ronald Rother. "But it's not possible to deliver this wishes personally. I therefore have my prayers and our desires in prayer before God, and I invite you all together with the whole archdiocese to pray for the Cardinal. We especially thank God that Cardinal Sterzinsky has headed our archdiocese now for more than 20 years."

 

Latest update and things are sounding worse and worse:

 

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February 9

According to a kreuz.net katholische nachrichten statement from Berlin, since January 24, 2011, the cardinal has been operated on four times and is in serious condition, kept in an artificial coma in intensive care in the hospital of the Sisters of St. Francis, in Budapest street, in Mitte district, Berlin. At the end of January, he was diagnosed with stomach cancer.

 

Source: http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/additions-11.htm

 

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Any one want to punt on how many days he has left?

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"domradio.de - Katholische Nachrichten announced today that Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky is seriously ill. He will turn 75 next week but all celebrations were canceled today. The cardinal has been in the hospital since Monday January 24, when he had to undergo an emergency surgery. Last night a second surgery was necessary. No information about the reasons for the operations and the cardinal's condition have been given yet."

 

Source: http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/additions-11.htm (January 30 entry)

 

Sterzinsky is a fairly minor cardinal. The most interesting thing about him is that he is German, like the pope, so I wonder where he sits factionally with his Supreme Pontiff?

 

Not sounding good for him:

 

February 8

On the occasion of his 75th birthday of Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky, archbishop of Berlin, Germany, on February 9, 2011, the archdiocese issued the following bulletin. "On 9 February 2011 Cardinal Sterzinsky will celebrate his 75th birthday. No celebrations are possible, as Cardinal Sterzinsky still is in the hospital. His health has not improved.

 

"It's a good habit, to wish a good health on the occasion of a birthday" said Vicar General Monsignor Ronald Rother. "But it's not possible to deliver this wishes personally. I therefore have my prayers and our desires in prayer before God, and I invite you all together with the whole archdiocese to pray for the Cardinal. We especially thank God that Cardinal Sterzinsky has headed our archdiocese now for more than 20 years."

 

Latest update and things are sounding worse and worse:

 

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February 9

According to a kreuz.net katholische nachrichten statement from Berlin, since January 24, 2011, the cardinal has been operated on four times and is in serious condition, kept in an artificial coma in intensive care in the hospital of the Sisters of St. Francis, in Budapest street, in Mitte district, Berlin. At the end of January, he was diagnosed with stomach cancer.

 

Source: http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/additions-11.htm

 

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Any one want to punt on how many days he has left?

 

We have two on the go now:

 

* February 24

Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation from the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Berlin, Germany, presented by Cardinal Georg Maximilian Sterzinsky in conformity to canon 401 § 1 of the Code of Canon Law. The archdiocese of Berlin also issued a communique announcing the resignation. The cardinal's condition remains serious. In Crónica - 2011.

 

 

 

* February 24

The Catholic Standard and Times, the Official Newspaper of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, announced today that "Cardinal John Patrick Foley, 75, is retiring and resigning from his post as grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem in Rome. The former editor of The Catholic Standard & Times and a former director of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications suffers from leukemia and anemia. 'It's been getting progressively worse and I get weaker,' Cardinal Foley said. 'I didn't have the energy to perform my duties.'" He submitted a letter of resignation to the Vatican's secretary of State on February 8, 2011; met with Pope Benedict XVI on February 10; and returned to the archdiocese of Philadelphia on February 12, to live at Villa St. Joseph, a residence for retired, infirm and convalescent priests in Darby.The Vatican has not announced yet the acceptance of the resignation. In Crónica - 2011.

 

Source: http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/additions-11.htm

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Conclave elector Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil, the leader of India's three million Syro-Malabar Catholics, is supposed to be very ill with heart problems.

 

May The Lord have mercy on his soul. Can't see him getting much obit action though.

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"domradio.de - Katholische Nachrichten announced today that Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky is seriously ill. He will turn 75 next week but all celebrations were canceled today. The cardinal has been in the hospital since Monday January 24, when he had to undergo an emergency surgery. Last night a second surgery was necessary. No information about the reasons for the operations and the cardinal's condition have been given yet."

 

Source: http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/additions-11.htm (January 30 entry)

 

Sterzinsky is a fairly minor cardinal. The most interesting thing about him is that he is German, like the pope, so I wonder where he sits factionally with his Supreme Pontiff?

 

Not sounding good for him:

 

February 8

On the occasion of his 75th birthday of Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky, archbishop of Berlin, Germany, on February 9, 2011, the archdiocese issued the following bulletin. "On 9 February 2011 Cardinal Sterzinsky will celebrate his 75th birthday. No celebrations are possible, as Cardinal Sterzinsky still is in the hospital. His health has not improved.

 

"It's a good habit, to wish a good health on the occasion of a birthday" said Vicar General Monsignor Ronald Rother. "But it's not possible to deliver this wishes personally. I therefore have my prayers and our desires in prayer before God, and I invite you all together with the whole archdiocese to pray for the Cardinal. We especially thank God that Cardinal Sterzinsky has headed our archdiocese now for more than 20 years."

 

Latest update and things are sounding worse and worse:

 

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February 9

According to a kreuz.net katholische nachrichten statement from Berlin, since January 24, 2011, the cardinal has been operated on four times and is in serious condition, kept in an artificial coma in intensive care in the hospital of the Sisters of St. Francis, in Budapest street, in Mitte district, Berlin. At the end of January, he was diagnosed with stomach cancer.

 

Source: http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/additions-11.htm

 

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Any one want to punt on how many days he has left?

 

 

* February 24

Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation from the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Berlin, Germany, presented by Cardinal Georg Maximilian Sterzinsky in conformity to canon 401 § 1 of the Code of Canon Law. The archdiocese of Berlin also issued a communique announcing the resignation. The cardinal's condition remains serious. In Crónica - 2011.

 

Source: http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/additions-11.htm

 

The Sterzinsky saga goes on:

 

"... Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky, archbishop of Berlin, Germany, was awaken from the induced coma on Tuesday April 5, 2011. His condition has improved but is not yet good, said the spokesman of the archdiocese,.."

 

Also, "... Cardinal Kazimierz Świątek, archbishop emeritus of Minsk-Mohilev, apostolic administrator ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of Pinsk, Belarus, broke a leg on March 8, 2011 and was hospitalized. On April 7, 2011, an operation was necessary, and since then, the cardinal is unconscious and in a coma. At 96, he is the second oldest cardinal of the Church...."

 

Source: http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/additions-11.htm April 8 entries

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Cardinal Giovanni Saldarini passed away.

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Spanish cardinal Agustín García-Gasco Vicente who only just turned 80 back in February, becoming a non-elector, has died suddenly in his sleep in Rome overnight. According to that most rubbish of sources, Wikipedia, he passed away "minutes before the Beatification of Pope John Paul II,"

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agust%C3%ADn_...a-Gasco_Vicente

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domradio.de informed that the condition of Cardinal Georg Maximilan Sterzinsky, archbishop emeritus of Berlin, Germany, is very serious after he developed pneumonia and had to be brought from the rehabilitation center back to the hospital. Auxiliary Bishop Matthias Heinrich of Berlin, diocesan administrator until the appointment of a successor to Cardinal Sterzinsky, asked the faithful to pray for the cardinal. Information kindly provided by Mr. Lambert Stamer, from Giessen, Germany.

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domradio.de informed that the condition of Cardinal Georg Maximilan Sterzinsky, archbishop emeritus of Berlin, Germany, is very serious after he developed pneumonia and had to be brought from the rehabilitation center back to the hospital. Auxiliary Bishop Matthias Heinrich of Berlin, diocesan administrator until the appointment of a successor to Cardinal Sterzinsky, asked the faithful to pray for the cardinal. Information kindly provided by Mr. Lambert Stamer, from Giessen, Germany.

Thank you and welcome to Deathlist!

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Thank you David

 

Other news:

 

Monday, 23 May 2011 08:45

 

To pray for Cardinal Kazimierz Świątek, who is in a serious condition, exhorted Metropolitan of Minsk and Mahilyow Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz. "Doctors are fighting for the life of Cardinal and are doing everything possible, but prayers are also necessary, so that the infinitely gracious Lord becomes a support for him during this difficult time."

According to Metropolitan Kondrusiewicz, our prayers can become an expression of gratitude to Cardinal Świątek for his life and service which he gave to the Church and its recovery from the hard times of persecution.

 

On May 21 Cardinal Kazimierz Świątek marked the 20th anniversary of episcopal consecration.

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"domradio.de - Katholische Nachrichten announced today that Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky is seriously ill. He will turn 75 next week but all celebrations were canceled today. The cardinal has been in the hospital since Monday January 24, when he had to undergo an emergency surgery. Last night a second surgery was necessary. No information about the reasons for the operations and the cardinal's condition have been given yet."

 

Source: http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/additions-11.htm (January 30 entry)

 

Sterzinsky is a fairly minor cardinal. The most interesting thing about him is that he is German, like the pope, so I wonder where he sits factionally with his Supreme Pontiff?

 

Not sounding good for him:

 

February 8

On the occasion of his 75th birthday of Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky, archbishop of Berlin, Germany, on February 9, 2011, the archdiocese issued the following bulletin. "On 9 February 2011 Cardinal Sterzinsky will celebrate his 75th birthday. No celebrations are possible, as Cardinal Sterzinsky still is in the hospital. His health has not improved.

 

"It's a good habit, to wish a good health on the occasion of a birthday" said Vicar General Monsignor Ronald Rother. "But it's not possible to deliver this wishes personally. I therefore have my prayers and our desires in prayer before God, and I invite you all together with the whole archdiocese to pray for the Cardinal. We especially thank God that Cardinal Sterzinsky has headed our archdiocese now for more than 20 years."

 

Latest update and things are sounding worse and worse:

 

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February 9

According to a kreuz.net katholische nachrichten statement from Berlin, since January 24, 2011, the cardinal has been operated on four times and is in serious condition, kept in an artificial coma in intensive care in the hospital of the Sisters of St. Francis, in Budapest street, in Mitte district, Berlin. At the end of January, he was diagnosed with stomach cancer.

 

Source: http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/additions-11.htm

 

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Any one want to punt on how many days he has left?

 

 

* February 24

Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation from the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Berlin, Germany, presented by Cardinal Georg Maximilian Sterzinsky in conformity to canon 401 § 1 of the Code of Canon Law. The archdiocese of Berlin also issued a communique announcing the resignation. The cardinal's condition remains serious. In Crónica - 2011.

 

Source: http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/additions-11.htm

 

The Sterzinsky saga goes on:

 

"... Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky, archbishop of Berlin, Germany, was awaken from the induced coma on Tuesday April 5, 2011. His condition has improved but is not yet good, said the spokesman of the archdiocese,.."

 

Also, "... Cardinal Kazimierz Świątek, archbishop emeritus of Minsk-Mohilev, apostolic administrator ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of Pinsk, Belarus, broke a leg on March 8, 2011 and was hospitalized. On April 7, 2011, an operation was necessary, and since then, the cardinal is unconscious and in a coma. At 96, he is the second oldest cardinal of the Church...."

 

Source: http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/additions-11.htm April 8 entries

 

Sterzinsky saga comes to an end.

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Kazimierz Świątek passed away at the age of 96

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz_%C5%9Awi%C4%85tek

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Cardinal Virgilio Noe has died aged 89.

 

According to the report, he was responsible for the physical upkeep of St Peter's Basilica.

 

He was also a former master of pontifical ceremonies, which is an impressive sounding title, but may well have been the chap handing out hymn books for all I know.

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Cardinal Virgilio Noe has died aged 89.

 

According to the report, he was responsible for the physical upkeep of St Peter's Basilica.

 

He was also a former master of pontifical ceremonies, which is an impressive sounding title, but may well have been the chap handing out hymn books for all I know.

LOL. Probably. I must admit I have become extremely lax in my self-appointed role of monitoring the deaths of cardinals, so thanks to everyone who has been logging them on my behalf.

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Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic, former Archbishop of Canada, has died aged 81, after a long illness.

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Cardinal Andrzej Maria Deskur passed away

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Cardinal Andrzej Maria Deskur passed away

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