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Barcelona 2010 - Intervention of Antonio TAJANI
Cardinal Lluis Martinez Sistach, Archbishop of Barcelona,
Professor Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio,
Honorable Representatives of the great world religions,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
First I would like to thank Cardinal Sistach and all the city of Barcelona for your wonderful hospitality. The initiative of the Community of Sant'Egidio has always impressed me for its wide vision. Sant'Egidio knows how to create the art of encounter.
These days of dialogue and prayer have testified how different religions can work together to improve our world. The President of the EU Commission, José Manuel Barroso, attributes great personal interest to this dialogue, as he showed in participating to the meeting in Krakow last year.
Recently, with the Presidents of the Commission, of the Parliament and of the European Council, I took part in an important meeting in Brussels with European religious leaders belonging to different faiths, during which we discussed about the fight against poverty and social exclusion. The European Union considers dialogue with other religions of great importance. We are conscious that Churches and religious communities contribute in a crucial way in terms of attenti
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The Chosen
by Inside the Vatican Staff
Description
Inside the Vatican provides biological sketches of the 23 new cardinals chosen by Pope Benedict XVI on October 17 and installed in Rome during ceremonies held on November 24 and 25.
Larger Work
Inside the Vatican
Pages
12 – 17
Publisher & Date
Urbi et Orbi Communications, New Hope, KY, November 2007
On October 17, Pope Benedict XVI announced the names of 23 new cardinals, who will be created at a consistory in Rome on November 24 and 25. Here are brief biographical sketches of the 23 new cardinals named by Pope Benedict.
1. Leonardo Sandri
Cardinal-designate Leonardo Sandri, who will turn 64 November 18, was recently named prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches in June, after a long career as a Vatican diplomat and official in the Vatican secretariat of state.
His last position, formally the "substitute secretary for general affairs," involved being in charge of day-to-day operations. In the last days of the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, when the Pope no longer had the stamina to read his own speeches, Cardinal-designate Sandri became the voice of the Pope.
Born November 18, 1943, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to parents of Italian descent, he was ordained a priest of the archdio