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Life under communism formed pull-no-punches style of Cardinal Rodé, whose Vatican office is behind two controversial investigations
By NCR Staff
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Cardinal Franc Rodé addresses the Apostolic Religious Life Symposium at
Stonehill College in North Easton, Mass., Sept. 27, 2008. (CNS photos/Gregory L. Tracy)
ROME – This year marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism, a process in which Catholics often played a critical role. All across Central and Eastern Europe, stubborn pockets of the faithful, many essentially untouched by the reforming spirit of the 1960s, helped keep resistance alive. In so doing, they not only changed history, but they also helped shape the personality of the man currently at the center of two ecclesiastical storms.
Slovenian Cardinal Franc Rodé, 75, heads the Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. That gives him jurisdiction over religious orders, and makes him the man behind two high-profile, and highly controversial, Vatican investigations: one of American women religious, the other of the Legionaries of Christ.
Both are currently underway, and it will be up to Rodé’s office – if not necessarily to Rodé himself, since he’s already reached the usual retirement age – to decide what recommendations go before the pope.
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By NCR Staff
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Cardinal Franc Rodé addresses the Apostolic Religious Life Symposium at
Stonehill College in North Easton, Mass., Sept. 27, 2008. (CNS photos/Gregory L. Tracy)
ROME – This year marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism, a process in which Catholics often played a critical role. All across Central and Eastern Europe, stubborn pockets of the faithful, many essentially untouched by the reforming spirit of the 1960s, helped keep resistance alive. In so doing, they not only changed history, but they also helped shape the personality of the man currently at the center of two ecclesiastical storms.
Slovenian Cardinal Franc Rodé, 75, heads the Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. That gives him jurisdiction over religious orders, and makes him the man behind two high-profile, and highly controversial, Vatican investigations: one of American women religious, the other of the Legionaries of Christ.
Both are currently underway, and it will be up to Rodé’s office – if not necessarily to Rodé himself, since he’s already reached the usual retirement age – to decide what recommendations go before the pope.
More…