Secretary of Cardinal Ratzinger - Called Homosexual Sins an "Evil"
Cardinal Angelo Amato, former Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for
the Causes of Saints, died on 31 December. The funeral will be presided
over by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re today. After that, Francis will
preside at the final farewell.
Born in Molfetta, Italy, on 8 June
1938, Angelo Amato made his first religious profession with the
Salesians of Don Bosco in 1956. He was ordained a priest in 1967 and a
bishop in 2003.
Cardinal Amato was a "conservative". He worked
for many years with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in what was then the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, becoming its secretary in
2002.
Benedict XVI appointed him Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints (2008-2018) and created him a Cardinal in 2010.
Controversies
In
April 2007, as Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith, Cardinal Amato spoke out against homosexual unions, abortion and
euthanasia. He called homosexual 'marriage' an evil that was almost
invisible because the media presented it as an 'expression of human
progress'. The regime media manufactured outrage over these innocuous
comments.
Other hyped comments were when Cardinal Amato stated in
2003 that a 1633 letter in the Vatican archives proved that the Roman
Inquisition had not persecuted Galileo Galilei for claiming that the
earth revolved around the sun, but for heretical theological ideas.
Amato
added that Galileo was accorded every civility while residing at the
Inquisition's pleasure: "His room was the apartment of the attorney -
one of the highest officials of the Inquisition - where he was assisted
by his own servant ... During the rest of his stay in Rome he was the
guest of the Florentine ambassador at the Villa Medici" [an indication
that, already then, heretics were treated in Rome better then defenders
of the Faith.]
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