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In the News (Sun 20 Dec 09)

  
  From enemy to possible pope
Ortega has earned some respect for his relatively independent stand on Castro's communist regime, and worked diligently to rebuild a church decimated by government restraints and teach a largely baptized but vastly untutored population.
Ortega told delegates that Cuba's is a ''church whose history has shown that the light always shines after dark times.'' As president the Cuban Bishops' Conference, Ortega has issued several pastoral letters urging a political opening.
Ortega was appointed archbishop in 1981 and under his leadership, there was a rebirth within the church.
www.latinamericanstudies.org /religion/ortega.htm   (708 words)

  
 Cardinal Biographies
Cardinal Silva was a brilliant student: he became a lawyer at the age of 22.
Cardinal Trujillo was ordained a priest on November 13, 1960.
Cardinal Castillo Lara is also a member of the Cardinals' Supervisory Commission for the Vatican Bank (Institute for Religious Works, known as IOR).
www.catholic.net /RCC/Periodicals/Inside/08-96/cardinal.html   (4176 words)

  
 Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino (born October 18, 1938) is the Archbishop of Havana.
He was named Bishop of Pinar del Río in western Cuba by Pope John Paul II in 1978 who later promoted him to Archbishop of Havana in 1981.
He was proclaimed Cardinal on November 26, 1994 and was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jaime_Cardinal_Ortega   (159 words)

  
 Cuba's Catholic renaissance man / The Washington Times - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
Cardinal Ortega, who in 1998 saw the first papal visit to the Caribbean island, has worked hard to regain ground the church lost after the 1959 revolution that brought Mr.
The son of a sugar worker and a housewife, Cardinal Ortega was born on Oct.
Cardinal Ortega and many other Cuban priests were sent to military-run agricultural work camps during the few years they operated.
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 The New Pope Benedict XVI » Leading Candidates for Pope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 1981 Cardinal Ratzinger was appointed prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by Pope John Paul II, made a Cardinal Bishop of the episcopal see of Velletri-Segni in 1993, and was elected Dean of the College of Cardinals in 2002, becoming titular bishop of Ostia.
Cardinal Secretary of State is one of the positions in the Curia that ends when the current pope dies, and as Cardinal Sodano is past the customary retirement age it is probable that he would not be reappointed to the position by a new pope.
Francis Cardinal Arinze (born November 1, 1932) is a leading African archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church and Prefect of the Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in the Roman Curia.
www.the-new-pope.com /category/leading-candidates-pope   (11668 words)

  
 Cardinal Biographies
Cardinal Silva was a brilliant student: he became a lawyer at the age of 22.
Cardinal Trujillo was ordained a priest on November 13, 1960.
Cardinal Castillo Lara is also a member of the Cardinals' Supervisory Commission for the Vatican Bank (Institute for Religious Works, known as IOR).
catholic.net /rcc/Periodicals/Inside/08-96/cardinal.html   (4176 words)

  
 89.3 KPCC | News Specials | Papal Election
The cardinals are sensitive to charges that the "fix is in" if an American is chosen, and they're sensitive to the global gap between rich and poor.
The cardinals listed here are between the ages of 65 and 72, not too young to assure a long pontificate like John Paul's, but not too old to restrict the grueling travel schedule that John Paul maintained.
On Friday, Cardinal Bergoglio was named in a criminal complaint brought by a human rights lawyer who accused him of involvement in the 1976 kidnapping of two priests by the former dictatorship.
www.scpr.org /news/features/2005/04/cardinals.html   (1766 words)

  
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Ortega, who in 1998 saw the first papal visit to the Caribbean island, has worked hard to regain ground the church lost after the 1959 revolution that brought Mr.
Ortega was born on Oct. 18, 1936, in the sugar mill-town of Jaguey Grande, in the central province of Matanzas.
Ortega and many other Cuban priests were sent to military-run agricultural work camps during the few years they operated.
courses.wcupa.edu /rbove/eco343/014Compecon/Cuba/011008church.txt   (1003 words)

  
 Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Cardinals aged 80 at the time of the death of Pope John Paul II are indicated with an asterisk.
Antonio María Cardinal Javierre Ortas* - born February 21 1921 Retired Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
Jorge Arturo Cardinal Medina Estévez - born December 23 1926 Retired Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
www.brujula.net /english/wiki/College_of_Cardinals.html   (3146 words)

  
 The New Yorker: PRINTABLES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
At the time of Castro’s victory, in 1959, Ortega recalled, he was on vacation from his seminary studies, in the city of Matanzas, and accompanied the bishop when he greeted Castro as he and his guerrilla band passed by on their way to Havana.
Cardinal Ortega believes that Castro might have been looking for an excuse to postpone the visit, because his real concern was the perilous state of the Cuban economy following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
(Cardinal Ortega was finally allowed to appear on TV last week, but whether the Pope’s Masses will be televised remains a topic of frantic last-minute negotiations.) Then, too, I was struck by a pervasive air of sadness.
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 Jaime Lucas Cardinal Ortega y Alamino
Ortega, arzobispo de La Habana, se encuentra en Aparecida, 160 kilómetros al este de Sao Paulo, para participar en la V Conferencia del Episcopado Latinoamericano y del Caribe (CELAM), que comenzó este domingo y se extenderá hasta el 31 de mayo.
Y de igual modo que a un escritor o a un cineasta cubano se le pregunta por la revolución antes que por su obra, de un alto dignatario de la Iglesia como él se espera que hable poco del reino de los cielos y más de Fidel Castro y del cambio que se adivina.
Ortega, de 70 años, dijo en su mensaje que en todas las celebraciones católicas realizadas se escucha “un clamor unánime de paz” de los creyentes “hombres y mujeres de cualquier edad, pero sobre todos jóvenes”.
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 Portsmouth Herald World News: College of Cardinals will elect new pope
And in Vietnam, Cardinal Francois Nguyen Van Thuan is recalled for his courage during nine years of solitary confinement, clinging to his faith and fashioning a Bible out of scraps of paper.
Just as Ortega, the son of a sugar worker and housewife, began his priestly vocation, the new communist government was weakening an already feeble Cuban church.
Ortega was consecrated as bishop for the diocese in western Pinar del Rio province in January 1979 and was named archbishop of Havana in November 1981.
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 Choose a New Pope--Beliefnet.com
A good choice for the next pope would be Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, the archbishop of Havana, who was put in a Cuban labor camp as a young man by Fidel Castro's regime.
In the course of his episcopal mission, Archbishop Ortega ordained 22 Cuban priests; a modest but significant number in a country where the Church's pastoral action has always been considerably curtailed.
Created and proclaimed Cardinal by John Paul II in the consistory of November 26, 1994.
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 TCRNews.com, Papabile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Cardinal Arinze is an exciting example of how the winds of the Holy Spirit are sweeping the African continent, producing great spokesmen for the faith, new saints, and a strong counterpoint to the decadence and secularism of the modern West.
Cardinal Jaime Ortega of Cuba is another courageous Latin American who in the nineteen sixties was held in a prison camp by Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Austria is considered to be a relatively young papal candidate because he is in his fifties.
www.tcrnews2.com /papabile.html   (1282 words)

  
 In picking pope, cardinals move in mysterious ways | News | FOX59.com | WXIN-TV | Indianapolis
The 20 Italian cardinals make up the largest national voting bloc, but the vast majority of cardinals who come from other countries is likely to consider candidates whose nationality might bring new energy to the papacy and a greater sense of the global nature of the church.
Cardinal Godfried Danneels, 71, the archbishop of Brussels, is more moderate than most members of the College of Cardinals, and he has suggested it would be better for future popes to retire rather than die in office.
This time the kingmaker might be Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, 77, widely regarded as John Paul II's right-hand man. As the iron-fisted enforcer of church doctrine, he probably is too divisive a figure to be in the running, but his blessing could be decisive.
fox59.trb.com /news/nationworld/chi-0504030438apr03,0,1132336.story   (1520 words)

  
 College of Cardinals - Enpsychlopedia
Antonio María Cardinal Javierre Ortas* (Spain) - born 21 February 1921 Retired Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
Jorge Arturo Cardinal Medina Estévez (Chile) - born 23 December 1926 Retired Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
José Cardinal Saraiva Martins (Portugal) - born 6 January 1932 Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
www.enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/College_of_Cardinals   (4047 words)

  
 Cardinal Electors of the Pope -Welcome to The Crossroads Initiative
So the clergy that served as the Pope's closest advisors came to be known as "Cardinals." They formed the main road to the Pope and the served as the hinges for the door to the Pope and from the Pope to the world.
Though a man is "created" Cardinal for life, he loses the privilege and responsibility to elect the next pope once he passes his 80th birthday.
As of the death of Pope John Paul II on April 2, 2005, there are 117 Cardinal eligible to serve as Electors, two of whom are too frail to participate in the Conclave.
www.crossroadsinitiative.com /library_article/520/Cardinal_Electors_of_the_Pope.html   (627 words)

  
 An interview with Cardinal Jaime Ortega of Havana
Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino of Havana, Cuba, recently visited Los Angeles for the first time.
(The Tidings, June 30, 2006) Cardinal Ortega, who was installed as Havana's archbishop in 1981 and elevated to cardinal in 1994, heads Caritas Cuba, the Catholic humanitarian aid agency.
The cardinal has also sought to increase religious liberties among the Caribbean country's 11 million people living under the communist government of Fidel Castro.
www.cardinalrating.com /cardinal_71__article_4357.htm   (1727 words)

  
 Cardinals gather in Rome - World - www.theage.com.au
Some Vatican observers think the cardinals might look for someone with a less absolutist approach - the late pontiff, who was known to crack down on theologians who didn't follow the doctrinal line.
The cardinals will soon enter a solemnly secret conclave in the Sistine Chapel, under Michelangelo's awesome fresco of the Last Judgment to elect the 262nd successor to the apostle Peter.
Pope Paul VI in 1970 set an upper limit of 120 to the number of cardinals participating in the conclave, all of whom must be under the age of 80.
www.theage.com.au /news/World/Cardinals-gather-in-Rome/2005/04/03/1112489329829.html   (810 words)

  
 Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
Cardinal Ortega: Our Church has come out of silence: the presence of John Paul II made the Church known not only to the world, but also to the Cuban people.
Cardinal Ortega: Immediately after the Pope's visit, many heads of state came to Havana and some countries renewed diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Cardinal Ortega: Its leader [Oswaldo Paya] is a Catholic of conviction, who lives his membership in the Church with fidelity.
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 National Catholic Reporter: Electing a New Pope
Instead, the aim is to identify cardinals whose backgrounds, accomplishments, and personalities guarantee they will at least get a serious look as possible papal material.
He was secretly consecrated a bishop in April 1977 in Castelgandolfo by Cardinal Josyf Slipy, his predecessor as head of the Ukranian Greek Catholic church, but the act was not recognized by Paul VI's Vatican, anxious not to upset the Russian Orthodox church or the Soviets.
As cardinal, he won high marks in his first few months in Austria, where the church had been rocked by a sexual misconduct scandal involving his predecessor.
www.nationalcatholicreporter.org /update/conclave/top_candidates.htm   (3250 words)

  
 Papal Prospects Who Aren't on the Short List
Experts are mentioning dozens of cardinals -- some little-known outside their regions, others from predominantly non-Catholic nations -- as long-shot possibilities to become the next pope.
The long shots include Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, archbishop of Havana, who helped organize the first papal visit to communist Cuba in 1998 and negotiated modest openings with a government that was once officially atheist.
Cardinal Jose da Cruz Policarpo of Portugal is mentioned as a possibility if his colleagues are seeking someone who could bridge a European-Latin American divide.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/15/AR2005041503978.html   (621 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Pope possibilities include Cuban, Indian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The region's dark horses include Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, the archbishop of Havana, who helped organize the first papal visit to Communist Cuba in 1998 and negotiated modest openings with a government that was once officially atheist.
Ortega, 68, his risen far from humble origins as a sugar worker's son.
Cardinal Jose da Cruz Policarpo of Portugal is mentioned as a possible contender if his colleagues are seeking someone who could bridge a possible Europe-Latin America divide.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-04-12-pope-hopefuls_x.htm   (719 words)

  
 CBSNews.com
In 1966 the Cuban government sent Alamino to a UMAP work camp, but after a year in imprisonment he was released and was allowed to continue his ministry in his hometown of Jaguey Grande.
Along with pastoral work, Alamino taught moral theology at the interdiocesan Seminary of La Habana and has always maintained an emphasis on young people.
In 1994 he became the first Cuban Cardinal since the 1959 revolution, and is currently the President of the Cuban Episcopal Conference.
www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/religion/pope/whois_alamino.html   (150 words)

  
 What the cardinals believe
Cardinal Tettamanzi dedicated his lenten letter to combating the fascination of a devil who is charming, shrewd and very real.
Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, 71, the Archbishop of Bologna said that the "Antichrist" was already on Earth in the guise of a prominent philanthropist whose concern for human rights and the environment and advocacy of ecumenicism masks his real aim: the destruction of Christianity and "the death of God".
Cardinal Jaime Sin, the controversial Philippine Catholic leader credited with leading popular revolts that ousted two presidents, is retiring after turning 75 last month, the Vatican's representative office in Manila announced on Monday.
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 Catholic World News : The Hour of Faith
The cardinal, who is also the head of the Cuban bishops' conference, is rapidly becoming a major figure in the worldwide Church; he is the second-youngest member (after Sarajevo's Cardinal Vinko Puljic) of the college of cardinals.
For the past ten years, under the leadership of Cardinal Ortega y Alamino, the Catholic Church has worked steadily to enlarge the small field of operations that opened in 1992, when the government formally changed the status of the Cuban regime from an official atheistic government of a "secular" state.
Since Ortega thus became the second cardinal in Cuban history, and the first since 1956, even the government-controlled press was forced to give reluctant coverage to the appointment.
www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=20979   (1581 words)

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