Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, the assistant to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the German cardinal responsible for handling sexual abuse cases, told the Italian Catholic monthly 30 Giorni recently of "well-founded suspicions" that many sexual abuse cases in the United States served "only to make money through civil litigation".
During Julius II's reign, Castellesi, "although neither requesting nor mentioning the office of protector of England, certainly presented himself to Henry VII as the cardinal responsible for English affairs in the Curia".
"If the cardinals are responsible for leading this church, they need to be about being real," she said.
Benedict XVI, in his earlier capacity as Cardinal Ratzinger, was responsible for ordering all reports of sex abuse to be channelled through his office at the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith, which he ran from 2001 to 2005.
Although the bishops' policy did not hold cardinals and bishops responsible for allowing abusive priests to continue in parishes, Mr. Keating said today that his board would investigate "episcopal neglect" as a reason for the abuse crisis.
"And certainly the pontiff is not responsible," said Cardinal Sodano, who referred to church criticism as "petty gossip" before the pope's Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square — although on Friday, the Vatican spokesman adopted a softer tone in a Vatican Radio address.
The film focuses at least as much on human drama as it does on the mechanics of his financial crimes, thereby observing the cardinal rule of socially responsible films in Hollywood: create something that will fill theater seats.
She was largely responsible for forcing Cardinal Levada to testify that day in 2006.
Appeals were taken to Rome, but the man responsible for parishes, Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos, refused them a hearing.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the German prelate responsible for church doctrine, said he conferred with the pope on unspecified church work.
Having advised Leo's successors in matters of heresy and reform, he was appointed to Pope Paul III's commission for ecclesiastical reform, was made cardinal in 1536, and was responsible for a reorganization of the Roman Inquisition.
