Last April, far-right Governor Tarcísio de Freitas issued an order to evacuate the last shantytown in the city center, which ...

The German daily Bild Zeitung reported Tuesday that Vatican regulators had opened an investigation into the allegations against former Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, citing ...

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's grip over the country's conservative movement is weakening following the recent Supreme Court's decision to put him on trial for allegedly plotting a ...

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone was appointed secretary of state – one of the most senior positions in the Church - by Pope Benedict Benedict XVI in 2006, and retired last October. Claims that Bertone ...

BRASÍLIA — A domestic flight in Brazil carrying 62 people crashed near São Paulo on Friday, killing everyone on board, Brazilian officials said. Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas, the governor of ...

Francis said he wrote the letter several years ago and gave it to then-Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who resigned in 2013. “I have already signed my renunciation.

Cardinal Bertone was born Dec 2, 1934. On Dec 3, 1950, he professed to be a member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco, and on July 1, 1960 he was ordained a Priest of the Salesians of Saint John Bosco.

Agius received his elementary education in Żabbar. His sister, Annie was his teacher and used to tell young Tarcisio not to call her by her first name at school. The prime of his youth was spent ...

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, as everyone knows, is a lightning rod for controversy. The Italian Salesian, who is now 81, was the man that Benedict XVI made secretary of state (and then Camerlengo of the ...

Bishop's House, 656 Ichiban-cho, Higashi Ohata-dori, Chou-ku, Niigata-shi, Niigata-ken 951-8106, Japan (025)222-7457 Fax :222-7467 [email protected], [email protected] Archbishop Tarcisius Isao ...

Distinctly Catholic: For the retired pope's 94th birthday, a consideration of two aspects of his long life: his career as a theologian and why being a great theologian is no guarantee one will be ...

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