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...CHOSEN. Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, 71, Archbishop of Genoa, as Pope Benedict XVI's next secretary of state; in the Vatican. A longtime aide to the current Pope, Cardinal Bertone will become the Vatican's de facto prime minister, replacing fellow Italian Angelo Cardinal Sodano in September...
...Catholic Church worldwide has immense assets." The Vatican itself doesn't cut checks or direct legal strategies to its dioceses around the world. But it is hammering out new procedures for handling future abuse allegations in a "desire to coordinate actions in these delicate matters," says Monsignor Tarcisio Bertone, a Vatican official. The Vatican's new involvement has a potential danger: it could actually make its deep pockets more vulnerable to those seeking damages down the road...
...declaration is a further sign of an ongoing theological power struggle within the Vatican over the limits of the ecumenism promoted by John Paul II himself - or even of the more general friction between the church's more liberal and more conservative strands under his tenure. Monsignor Tarcisio Bertone, who introduced the document Tuesday, made explicit that the document was released to correct the "errors and ambiguities" of unnamed moderate Catholic theologians that had become widespread. Ratzinger added that such theologians were "manipulating and exceeding" the principle of religious tolerance by allowing for an equivalence between different religions...
...intended to blow them all to kingdom come with a trench mortar. Eight men were accused and quickly convicted: Antonio Riva, wealthy, high-living Italian trader who once boasted he could do business under any kind of Chinese regime, and Ruichi Yamaguchi, a scholarly Japanese bookseller-death; Italian Bishop Tarcisio Martina, 64, longtime head of the Roman Catholic diocese of Yihsien in Hopei province-life imprisonment; four foreign-born old China hands and one Chinese businessman-prison terms ranging from five to ten years...