After he was ordained, he spent two decades studying before becoming Patriarch of Venice in 2002 and then Cardinal the following year.
Then, in 1994, he made history, he joined the elite of the Pope's closest advisers, Glasgow's first ever cardinal and only the third Scottish cardinal since the Reformation.
The cardinal asked the people of Argentina to do as Zacchaeus had done in the Gospel.
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The cardinal says the media should provide more positive images, rather than just telling young people about fundamentalism, suicide and war.
He says he prays that the new Pope will be "a man of faith" and obviously thinks the cardinal fits the bill.
Last week, Archbishop Philip Tartaglia - who replaced the cardinal in the Archdiocese of Edinburgh and St Andrews after his resignation - said the Church had been accused of hypocrisy "for obvious reasons".
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Why didn't BBC go to the scientists who advised the cardinal and the WHO and get the real truth - surely there have been electron microscope scans of this type of rubber that would prove definitively whether or not the pores are larger than or smaller than the HIV virus.
"The cardinal had been less outspoken before, but this would be the spark for him in a new public role, " says Father Juan Molina, a Salvadorian-American priest in Washington who knows the cardinal.
And that the cardinal's successor should "show a little more Christian charity towards openly gay people than the cardinal did himself".
During the time between the Pope's resignation and the election of his successor, the college of cardinals will govern the Church, headed by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, as the cardinal camerlengo - or chamberlain.
Labour MP Angela Eagle told BBC Radio 4's The World at One the situation the cardinal was placing the government in was close to "blackmail".
Before him, seated in neat rows of flowing crimson robes, were the cardinal electors, some of whom view Cardinal Sodano as the ultimate Vatican insider.
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He now enjoys the title of prince, and holds the equivalent rank of a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
In his homily, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, called for unity within the church, a not-so-veiled appeal to the cardinal electors to put their differences aside for the good of the church and the next pope.
During the vacancy, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Holy See's camerlengo, Italian for chamberlain, takes charge with the help of three cardinal assistants.
Led by the conclave's senior cardinal, Giovanni Battista Re, each of the cardinal-electors -- those under age 80 who are eligible to vote -- then swore an oath of secrecy, and all those not involved were ordered to leave.
That bullish stance stood in stark contrast with the view of Chicago Cardinal Francis George: His spokeswoman, Colleen Dolan, told The Associated Press that the cardinal suggested it could be a long affair.
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The Observer said the men had brought their claims forward to prevent the cardinal taking part in the conclave.
There was at least one example of the Rome's residents ransacking the house of the wrong cardinal, during the 400-500 years the tradition was followed.
The Times reported that church officials stopped proceedings against the priest after he wrote Ratzinger, who was at the time the cardinal in charge of the group that oversees Catholic Church doctrine.
But lurking beneath the surface are pressing concerns that threaten to dog Jorge Mario Bergoglio from his time as Jesuit superior and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Argentina.
The Cardinal shot 29 percent in the second half and struggled to find open looks for Ogwumike.
Comments of that kind led to the cardinal being named Bigot of the Year by gay rights group Stonewall.
Three "scrutineers" (vote counters) are chosen by lot from the electors, with the least senior cardinal deacon drawing the names.
The Sistine Chapel, where the cardinal-electors meet for the secretive conclave, is not yet being prepared for the process, Lombardi said.
Errazuriz, the cardinal from Chile, said the key isn't so much where the next pope comes from, but what he brings to the papacy.
Why did we have to be presented with arguments between a cardinal and the WHO?
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