Come again?July 2003: "I knew that the controversy was producing a distorted image of [Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez of the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa in Honduras], because Rodriguez is not a crusty foreign prelate PRELATE. The name of an ecclesiastical officer. There are two orders of prelates; the first is composed of bishops, and the second, of abbots, generals of orders, deans, &c. out of touch with America or modernity. He's a dynamic 60-year-old, whose near-flawless English reflects years of study, lecturing and travel in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Neither is he a defensive cultural warrior who sees enemies of the church under every rock; he studied with the German liberal theologian Bernard Haring in Rome after the Second Vatican Council Noun 1. Second Vatican Council - the Vatican Council in 1962-1965 that abandoned the universal Latin liturgy and acknowledged ecumenism and made other reforms Vatican II Vatican Council - each of two councils of the Roman Catholic Church (1962-65), and is generally located on the church's moderate-to-progressive wing." John L. Allen Jr., NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers Vatican correspondent, seeks to restore Rodriguez's reputation after he excoriated the US media's "persecution" of the Catholic church during its coverage of the sexual abuse scandal in May 2002 comparing media criticism of the church to persecutions under the Roman emperors
This is a list of the Roman Emperors with the dates they ruled, or claimed to rule, all or part of the Roman Empire, until the final demise of the Western Empire in 476 or to the death of Nero and Diocletian, as well as Hitler and Stalin. [John L. Allen, Jr., "The Word from Rome," National Catholic Reporter, July 11, 2003.] Update, June 2004: Rodriguez is exposed by the Dallas Morning News as having sheltered a priest who is an admitted child molester. Rodriguez put the Rev. Enrique Vasquez to work in two remote parishes from last year until March, when he again disappeared. Interpol is searching for him. The priest had fled criminal accusations in his native Costa Rica in 1998, and served in at least two US dioceses before disappearing again to spend time at a clergy treatment center in Mexico. [Brendan M. Case and Brooks Egerton, "Cardinal offered sanctuary to admitted molester mo·lest tr.v. mo·lest·ed, mo·lest·ing, mo·lests 1. To disturb, interfere with, or annoy. 2. To subject to unwanted or improper sexual activity. ," Dallas Morning News, June 21, 2004.] |
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