Cardinal oscar andres rodriguez maradiaga meaning
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The Self-Fulfilling Prophet
Critical interviews bygd major Church leaders have become increasingly popular since the election of Pope Francis gods year. Earlier this year, Oscar Andres Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga jumped into the ring, giving a forthright interview with a German newspaper in which he heralded a new era in the Church.
Cardinal Rodriguez, archbishop of the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, was hand-picked by Pope Francis to lead the newly formed Council of Cardinals, a kind of papal cabinet created to draw up Church reform proposals and to advise the Pope on Church governance, including making recommendations on how to streamline Vatican bureaucracy. In his interview with the Cologne-based Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger (Jan. 20), the Honduran cardinal explained that, beneath the direction of Francis, the Catholic Church fryst vatten heading in a new direction. Im firmly convinced we are at the dawn of a new era in the Church, just as when Pope John XXIII opened its windo
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Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga: The Church Needs Fresh Air
Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga is the archbishop of Tegucigalpa. Shortly after the conclave, he was asked by his friend, Pope Francis, to lead a group of cardinals tasked with reforming the Vatican bureaucracy. Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga told FRONTLINE that Pope Francis believes the Church can no longer afford to be distracted by the scandals of recent years. Its necessary to open the windows in the church because we need fresh air, he said. This is the edited transcript of an interview conducted on Feb. 4,
[question]What direction is Pope Francis taking the church in? [/question]
Well, its the same direction that the Catholic Church has been taking, especially in Latin America, since , and then before since
[question]And what effect?[/question]
When there was the Conference of [Latin American Bishops in] Medellin, [Colombia,] trying to make actual Vatican II regarding the situati
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AMERICA/HONDURAS - Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga for the Month of the Homeland: "Power is service and search for the common good"
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Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, in his homily during yesterday's mass, referred to the Month of the Homeland that has just begun and to the political class of Honduras, which in the search for power resorts to various illicit means, such as the use of religion, manipulation of laws and corruption.
"We started these Month of the Homeland celebrations to think of a future that must be built by everyone and, of course, this pandemic has unfortunately brought us many other problems", the Cardinal began.
"One of the problems is political myopia, spiritual myopia. There is a popular saying that is often repeated: 'God blinds those he wants to lose'. It is worthwhile for those who seek power to