As a result, Benedict's final public appearances his last general audience will be Feb. 27 are expected to draw great crowds, as they may well represent some of the last public speeches for a man who has spent his life as a priest, a cardinal and a pope teaching and preaching.
When told in the 1970s that it is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski, he joked that it is only unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.
As a cardinal he signed a document proclaiming the Catholic church superior to all others.
On September 19th, Pope Benedict is due to beatify Newman (who converted to Rome and became a cardinal) at a mass in Birmingham: the ceremony is meant to be the highlight of his visit.
Father Ratzinger, who played an influential role in the council as a key adviser to a top cardinal, was a strong proponent for some of the changes produced by the council, such as measures to boost dialogue between Christian churches.
Cardinal Sodano, a powerful Vatican cardinal who ran the Roman Curia under John Paul II, framed his homily by citing writings by the Apostle Paul.
Did BBC really expect a cardinal to come out in a TV interview and say that it was OK to use contraceptives or to have abortions?
He noted that any decision would have to be approved by the full College of Cardinals, given that the main duty of a cardinal is to vote in a conclave.
The former Cardinal placed a strong emphasis on the distribution of wealth, not the creation of it.
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It's widely thought that each cardinal has a name up their sleeve before the election, just in case, but the 76-year-old Argentine suggested his choice was spontaneous.
The man alleges Mahony and a Mexican cardinal conspired to allow a priest accused of abuse to flee to Mexico, putting an untold number of children at risk.
Father Albert Cutie, an Espiscopal priest who studies the Vatican, said it would be impossible to exclude every cardinal with a hand in the church's vast sex-abuse problem.
The Observer article said that three priests and a former priest sent complaints to the Vatican, via its ambassador in the U.K., about alleged actions by the cardinal over a period of years.
When the Communist authorities banned Solidarity and imposed martial law in December 1981, Jozef Glemp had only been cardinal for a few months, and had been made a bishop only two years earlier.
The whiff of scandal involving Cardinal Mahony and a separate case involving Scottish Cardinal Keith O'Brien is overshadowing the transition period to the next papacy, the BBC's David Willey in Rome says.
Several college coaches said they had never seen anything like the Rutgers video and it broke a cardinal rule: Never put your hands on a player.
Francis, who before he became pope was known as Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, said a fellow cardinal from Brazil had told him "don't forget the poor" as the votes stacked up in his favor.
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While several cardinals had initially tapped Cardinal Bergoglio as a possible successor to John Paul II, a majority coalesced around the then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
That roster included two of the names that were most frequently being mentioned by the media: Cardinal Ouellet, a former Archbishop of Quebec, and Cardinal Scola of Milan.
"It's not a personal attack on his qualities as a cardinal or individual, " said Monsignor Michael Fahey, a scholar at Fairfield University in Conn.
There was a lack of controls for risk: "The risk function was a cardinal area of weakness, " and this was "a matter of design, not accident".
"It is time to find again the courage of nonconformism, the capacity to oppose many of the trends of the surrounding culture, renouncing a certain euphoric postconciliar solidarity, " the cardinal declared in a 1984 interview that put the liberal wing of the Catholic Church on notice.
It is a cardinal principal of antitrust that the law does not turn on a firm simply because it wins by building a better mousetrap.
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In 1962, he served as a consultant during the pivotal Vatican II council to Cardinal Frings, a reformer who was the archbishop of Cologne, Germany.
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Every country in the world with a sizeable Catholic population holds out the hope that its cardinal will get a chance at the top slot.
The whiff of scandal involving a Scottish and a US Cardinal is overshadowing the transition to a new papacy, the BBC's David Willey in Rome says.
Davies says nine more bets have been placed on Father Dougal Maguire -- the dimwitted fictional priest from Irish television sitcom "Father Ted" and a 10, 000-1 underdog -- than for Claudio Hummes, a Brazilian cardinal who also has the added benefit of being a real person.
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