Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, S.J. (1927-2012). / Mafon1959 via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Milan, Italy, May 17, 2022 / 05:47 am (CNA).Vatican Cardinal Michael Czerny on Monday described the late Italian Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini as a "prophet."Czerny, the prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, said that the controversial Jesuit theologian anticipated recent developments in the Catholic Church.Martini, a renowned biblical scholar, was described by the New York Times as one of the Catholic Church s "most influential progressive thinkers" and a "possible successor to Pope John Paul II," when the Polish pope died in 2005.Martini, who led the Milan archdiocese from 1979 to 2002, declared in an interview shortly before his death in 2012 that "the Church is 200 years behind the times."Speaking in Milan on May 16, Cardinal Czerny said: "Many already appreciated him while he was among you, not without misunderstandings,
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Cardinal Michael Czerny has been appointed as the new prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. / Pablo Esparza/CNA.Vatican City, Apr 23, 2022 / 05:00 am (CNA).Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, as the new prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development on Saturday.Czerny, 75, succeeds Cardinal Peter Turkson, who led the social development dicastery from 2016 to 2021. Pope Francis on April 23 also named a new secretary for the dicastery, Sister Alessandra Smerilli, and appointed Fr. Fabio Baggio as the undersecretary of the dicastery with responsibility for its Migrants and Refugees Section.Both Czerny and Smerilli have recently served as the "ad interim" leaders for the positions they were officially appointed to within the dicastery since the beginning of this year.Czerny was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1946 and immigrated with his family to Canada at the age of two. He has served as Under-secr
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