The council itself was turned over to a conservative cardinal named Paul Poupard, and, to some extent, folded into the Pontifical Council for Culture, which Poupard heads.
Though the villa was the work of a rather obscure 17th-century Farnese cardinal named Girolamo, it did have its moment in history.
"The cardinal is trying to get a lot done as quickly as he can," explained Msgr. Peter Finn, whom the cardinal named as the rector of St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers.
Cardinal named David Schlotterbeck, 61, who is head of its clinical and medical products group, to be chief executive of the spinoff med-tech company, which will be based in San Diego.
Gutiérrez was the founder of a progressive movement within the Catholic church known as liberation theology, and while he was never censured in the manner that some of his philosophical compatriots were, there were often rumblings that Gutiérrez was being investigated by Pope John Paul II's doctrinal czar, a German cardinal named Joseph Ratzinger who would later become Pope Benedict.
The following is a list of the 37 new cardinals named today by Pope John Paul II.
The eight cardinals named include the archbishop of Boston and prelates from Australia, Chile, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Germany, Honduras, India and Italy.
Like three other cardinals named today, Father Dulles is ineligible to vote for a new pope in a conclave because he is over 80.
But with words like bankruptcy and subpoena now appearing in the same sentence with the cardinal's name, many here said his continued presence could serve only as a reminder of the scandal.
So Mr. Kung approached his uncle and asked to begin a foundation in the cardinal's name that would advocate freedom of religion in China and press the Chinese government to release Catholics whom the foundation says are held in prisons there.
