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Thus the south's champions in the conclave will be many, some with formidable credentials. Rodr??guez Maradiaga did not just hang with Bono. Calling debt "a tombstone pressing down on us," he presented a 17 million--signature petition for debt relief at a G-8 meeting, and he has bent German Chancellor Gerhard Schrder's ear on the topic. In the 1980s, Brazil's CLAUDIO CARDINAL HUMMES backed strikes and defied his country's dictators by letting leftist labor leader Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (now Brazil's President) make speeches during Mass. He has spoken...
Prior to the past few weeks, there was much talk that the conclave that replaced John Paul might discount relatively youthful papabili like Schnborn, 60, and Rodr??guez Maradiaga, 62. Reason: after John Paul's multidecade marathon, the electors would, as McBrien puts it, "be looking for a breather" and would try to avoid the possibility of another long-term Pontiff. There was much discussion of an older, interim figure, a caretaker who by definition would have to worry less about living up to John Paul's gargantuan legacy...
...Rodr??guez said that because Cubans are prohibited from purchasing chemicals and other materials from the United States, the opportunity to visit Harvard allows Cuban scientists to explore otherwise unavailable avenues of research...
...Because of this, cooperation with countries that have these possibilities is very important,” Rodr??guez said...
...first time, it wasn’t too hard,” Rodr??guez said. “We thought it would be a little delayed...some people we knew got visas a few months before us and it wasn’t too hard for them...