Long before the junta gave up power Cardinal Silva Henriquez sensed that its time was running out.
Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet and Brazilian Cardinal Odilo Scherer round out Paddy Power's top five -- and though betting on the next pope is illegal in the U.S., the Irish bookmaker is offering 20-1 odds on Cardinal Timothy Dolan, America's top Catholic.
Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet and Italian Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco round out Paddy Power's top five -- and though betting on the next pope is illegal in the U.S., the Irish bookmaker is offering 33-1 odds on Cardinal Timothy Dolan, America's top Catholic.
Lynn's defense team argues that he repeatedly sent word of child sex abuse up the chain of command, operated under strict orders from the late Archbishop Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua and never had the power to remove a priest from ministry.
When Marcos forces threatened to retaliate, the influential Archbishop of Manila, Jaime Cardinal Sin, broadcast an appeal for "people power" to protect them.
Cokie Roberts, also speaking on Morning Edition, noted that Benedict, as Cardinal Ratzinger, had served as the de facto power behind the throne during the final years of his predecessor Pope John Paul II.
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Cardinal Sin often displayed moral courage when Marcos was in power.
That is a safeguard that Estrada's opponents, led by the leaders of People Power - former president Corazon Aquino and Catholic leader Cardinal Jaime Sin - want to preserve at all costs.
Historian David Kertzer notes that Cardinal Angelo Ratti became pope just a few months before Mussolini took power in Italy.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state, is involved in a power struggle with his predecessor, the observers said.
Last year, the cardinal said Argentina was being harmed by demagoguery, totalitarianism, corruption and efforts to secure unlimited power, the Associated Press reports.
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Leonardo Boff was silenced for a year by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) for his book Church, Charisma and Power, which accused the Church hierarchy of abusing their authority and of being out of touch with ordinary Catholics.
The then Cardinal Bergoglio, now, the leader of one billion Catholics in the world, spoke truth to power to the Kirchners on their authoritarian and megalomaniac style.
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Some Vatican officials say the administration needs to be completely restructured, saying too much power is concentrated in the hands of the secretary of state, a position held by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone until Benedict's resignation in February.
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