Cardinal Renato Martino

Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, has already expressed his fear that allowing Ms. Schiavo to starve would be 'a grave step toward the legal approval of euthanasia in the United States.' He speaks for many other concerned persons around the world.”.

Cardinal Renato Martino has become the latest cardinal to publicly support the four cardinals who have written to the Pope asking him to clarify teaching in his apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia. Asked in a Dec. 17 interview with the Italian website La Fede Quotidiana for his thoughts on the dubia of the ...

This is why, in March 2007, the organization was condemned by the Vatican when Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, asked all Catholics and all Catholic institutions to withdraw their financial support. Also in 2007, in England, Bishop Michael Evans ...

"Opportunities exist to press the issue with the Vatican, and in turn to influence a wide segment of the population in Europe and the developing world," says another. But in a setback, the US embassy found that its closest ally on GM, Cardinal Renato Martino, head of the powerful Pontifical Council for ...

On the other hand, the precedent of Benedict's resignation could spur the conclave to pick an older pope, knowing that — should he become unable to do the job — he could resign. That would be good news for Cardinal Francis Arinze of Nigeria (5 percent, No. 12) and Cardinal Renato Martino of Italy (2 ...

After the November 1 birthday of Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze and the November 23 birthday of Italian Cardinal Renato Martino, there will be six vacancies. Cardinal-designate Harvey has worked at the Vatican for 30 years. Born in Milwaukee on October 20, 1949, he was ordained to the priesthood in ...

Cardinal Renato Martino, who heads the office, told a news conference that the Vatican felt it necessary to address the pastoral needs of motorists because driving had become such a big part of contemporary life. He cited World Health Organization statistics that said an estimated 1.2 million people are ...

Cardinal Renato Martino said he had felt pity watching video of "this man destroyed, [the military] looking at his teeth as if he were a beast". The cardinal, a leading critic of the US-led war in Iraq, said he hoped the capture would not make matters "worse". A senior US official has defended the decision to ...