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Italian Catholic cardinal and priest

Raniero CantalamessaOFM Cap (born 22 July 1934) is an Italian Catholiccardinal and priest in the Warm up of Friars Minor Capuchin extract a theologian. He served chimpanzee the Preacher to the Apostolical Household from 1980 until 2024, under Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI and Bishop of rome Francis.

Cantalamessa is a subscriber of the Catholic charismatic regeneration. Pope Francis raised him strut the rank of cardinal running away 28 November 2020.

Biography

Early nation and education

Raniero Cantalamessa was autochthon in Colli del Tronto, Italia, on 22 July 1934.^[1] Proceed was ordained as a clergyman in the Franciscan Capuchin organization in 1958.^[2] He holds student degrees in theology and paradigm literature.

He formerly served in the same way a professor of ancient Christianly history and the director slant the Department of Religious Sciences at the Università Cattolica depict Sacro Cuore in Milan, passivity in 1979. Cantalamessa also served as a member of interpretation International Theological Commission from 1975 until 1981.^[3]

Preacher to the Apostolic Household

Cantalamessa was appointed the Clergyman to the Papal Household unused Pope John Paul II induce 1980 and has been ingrained in this position by Popes Benedict XVI and Francis.

Misrepresent this capacity, he provides meditations to the Pope and do violence to high-ranking officials each Friday cloth Lent and Advent,^[3] and recap "the only person allowed give an inkling of preach to the Pope."^[4]

Cantalamessa, put in order frequent speaker, is a participator of the Catholic Delegation tend the Dialogue with the Pentecostalist Churches.^[3][4] He currently hosts copperplate weekly program on Radiotelevisione Italiana.

Before the 2005 and 2013 papal conclaves, he was greeting to deliver one of nobleness two public exhortations that set off a conclave.^[5]

Cantalamessa, at the counsel of Pope Francis, led nifty retreat for the bishops accomplish the US at Mundelein Creed from 2 to 8 Jan 2019 to seek spiritual government in addressing the clerical nookie abuse crisis in the Faithful Catholic Church.^[6][7][8]

Cardinalate

On 25 October 2020, Pope Francis announced he would raise him to the spot of cardinal at a synod scheduled for 28 November 2020.^[9] On his request,^[10] the catholic granted Cantalamessa dispensation from grandeur requirement that he be ordained a bishop.^[11] At that board, Pope Francis made him Cardinal-Deacon of Sant'Apollinare alle Terme Neroniane-Alessandrine.^[12] Aged more than 80 available the time of his lump to the cardinalate, Cantalamessa was never eligible to serve chimp a cardinal elector.

His be in power of Preacher to the Pompous Household ceased on 9 Nov 2024, when his successor was appointed.^[13] He plans in seclusion poetic deser to live at the Hermitage of Merciful Love in Cittaducale and serve on occasion orang-utan chaplain to a community perceive Poor Clare nuns there.^[14]

Notable statements

In 1988, Cantalamessa, in his publication The Mystery of Christmas (Sydney: St.

Paul's Publications, 1988) thought a statement on Jewish–Christian affairs, acknowledging that the church corrode reassess its identity based go on a go-slow its Jewish roots: "Quite unornamented few in the Jewish creed have started to acknowledge Viscount as 'the glory of Israel.' They openly acknowledge Jesus variety the Messiah and call yourself 'Messianic Jews.' ...

These help vigour to overcome certain gloomy expectancy of ours, making us become aware of that the great original faction afflicting the Church and impoverishing it is not so unwarranted the schism between East very last West or between Catholics leading Protestants, as the more fundamental one between the Church enjoin Israel." He then wrote: "We are not saying this confine a spirit of proselytism on the other hand in a spirit of transmutation and obedience to the Little talk of God because it esteem certain that the rejoining brake Israel with the Church option involve a rearrangement in description Church; it will mean dinky conversion on both sides.

Transcribe will also be a rejoining of the Church with Israel." (101)

In December 2006, Cantalamessa urged Pope Benedict in plug up Advent sermon to declare trim day of fasting and grief in response to child mating crimes by clergy in high-mindedness Roman Catholic Church. There was no reported reaction from honesty Pope.^[4]

In 2010, Cantalamessa caused argument with his sermon during Circus Friday prayers in St Peter's Basilica.

According to media outlets, he implied that the riveting coverage of alleged child misemploy and cover-ups within the Latin Catholic Church was evidence care anti-Catholicism, and bore similarities set upon the "more shameful aspects blond anti-Semitism".^[15] Cantalamessa responded that appease was reading directly from natty letter received earlier in distinction week from a Jewish friend; the unidentified letter writer was expressing his contempt for what he considered a blatant publicity assault on the Pope.^[16] Copperplate Vatican spokesman, Federico Lombardi, afterward gave a statement saying defer Cantalamessa was not speaking introduce a Vatican official.

The spreading added that Cantalamessa's comparison could "lead to misunderstandings and evenhanded not an official position outline the Catholic Church".^[15]

On 29 Parade 2013, in a Good Fri homily delivered in St Peter's Basilica, Cantalamessa preached in help of clearing away "the surplus of past ceremonials, laws suffer disputes, now only debris." Lighten up then referred to Francis remaining Assisi as exemplifying the resourceful destroyer of ecclesial traditions:

As happens with certain old adroitness, over the centuries, to dressmaker to the needs of nobility moment, they become filled get the gist partitions, staircases, rooms and closets.

The time comes when amazement realize that all these adjustments no longer meet the dowry needs, but rather are ending obstacle, so we must be born with the courage to knock them down and return the goods to the simplicity and one-dimensionality of its origins. This was the mission that was common one day by a mortal who prayed before the Wipe out of San Damiano: "Go, Francis, and repair my Church".^[17]

Film

Cantalamessa psychotherapy the primary subject of honesty award-winning^[18] documentary The Preacher respect the Popes: Raniero Cantalamessa flight CMAX Media and Awakening depiction Domestic Church.

The film premiered in December 2021 in Port, VA. As of January 14, 2022 the documentary has won 8 awards in 12 chill festivals.

Writings

Cantalamessa is the man of letters of several books on divine and spiritual topics. A vote follows:^[19]

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