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Burke's new assignment came with an impressive title: Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura - essentially chief justice of the Vatican's highest court. But the job, which involves hearing appeals of lower-canon-court rulings on issues like annulment requests, did not stop him from commenting on American politics. In January he charged that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops was responsible for Obama's victory because it overwhelmingly approved a document suggesting that Catholics could consider issues besides abortion when deciding how to vote. The conference's in-house news service, he added, failed...
Died. Federico Cardinal Cattani-Amadori, 86, veteran Vatican jurist; of heart disease; in Rome. Papal auditor and secretary of the Apostolic Signatura ( Supreme Tribunal of the Roman Curia), he became a Cardinal in 1935. He was the sixth Cardinal to die within the last year...
...Congregation of the Sacraments; Monsignor Massimo Massimi, dean of the Sacred Roman Rota (the Church's trial court); Monsignor Carlo Cremonesi, papal Grand Almoner; Monsignor Vincenzo La Puma, secretary of the Congregation of the Affairs of Religious; Monsignor Frederico Cattani Amadori, papal auditor, secretary of the Apostolic Signatura (Supreme Tribunal of the Roman Curia); Monsignor Domenico Mariani, treasurer of the papal Ministries; Rev. Pietro Boetto, S. J., assistant for Italy to the General of the Society of Jesus...
Died. Giuseppe Cardinal Mori, 84, judge of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura and member of the committee appointed to rule the Roman Catholic Church between the death of one Pope and the election of another; of heart disease; in Loro Piceno, Italy...
Trial III. The marriage was declared valid. Le Comte appealed from the Rota to Pope Benedict XV. Trial IV. The case was laid before a Commission of the Apostolic Signatura−the supreme tribunal of the Church. Six cardinals composed the commission. They held the marriage valid. Le Comte appealed to Pope Pius...
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