{"id":4930,"date":"2006-10-29T14:22:36","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T14:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/10\/to-the-curia.html"},"modified":"2006-10-29T14:22:36","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T14:22:36","slug":"to-the-curia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/10\/to-the-curia.html","title":{"rendered":"To the Curia?"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Allen reports on a report:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Pope Benedict XVI is set to name a Brazilian cardinal known as a longtime supporter of the liberation theology movement to a senior Vatican post, according to an Italian news report today.<\/p>\n

Writing in the Italian daily La Stampa<\/em>, veteran Vatican writer Marco Tosatti reported that Cardinal Cl\u00e1udio Hummes, 72, of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, will become the new prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, replacing Cardinal Dar\u00edo Castrill\u00f3n Hoyos, a 77-year-old Colombian.<\/p>\n

If confirmed, the report would mean that Benedict has tapped a theological moderate and a man long identified as one of liberation theology\u2019s friends in the Latin American hierarchy. Hummes is a close personal friend and longtime supporter of Brazil\u2019s leftist president, Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva.<\/p>\n

The irony would not be lost on the Latin American church, where then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, while still Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was known as the author of a 1984 Vatican document highly critical of liberation theology \u2013 judged to be excessively politicized, and to shade off at times into Marxist-inspired terrorism.<\/p>\n

Since Castrill\u00f3n is also President of the Ecclesia Dei Commission, which is responsible for relations with Catholic traditionalists attached to the pre-Vatican II Mass, the nomination of Hummes could mean that a cardinal not known to be as friendly as Castrill\u00f3n to the traditionalists will now be handling their affairs. What implications that might have for a document rumored to be forthcoming on wider use of the pre-Vatican II Mass remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

The appointment would also remedy what has long been perceived as a slight to the Brazilian church, the largest Catholic community in the world at 144 million. At present, no Brazilian occupies a senior Vatican position.<\/p>\n

The Vatican has had no immediate comment on the La Stampa<\/em> report.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

More on Cardinal Hummes.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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