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It finally seems that the changes in the Curia we have hoped for are underway. Several sources, including L’Indipendente and Fr. Zuhlsdorf, both referenced by Rorate-Caeli, point to Salesian Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone as the heir to Sodano.
We are rather pleased by this decision, and not the least because of the good Cardinal’s excellent first name. May he resemble in the fulfillment of his new Office another possessed of a conspicuously cool name: that predecessor of happier days, Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val.
St. Louis-Marie de Montfort,
Pope St. Pius X,
St. Joseph,
St. Ambrose of Milan,
St. Thomas Aquinas,
St. Francis (and St. Clare),
St. Catherine of Siena,
St. Alphonsus Ligouri,
St. John Chrysostom,
When not in the office, Cardinal Bertone flirts, as Iacobus might say, with somatolatry. Cf. Iota Unum, Chapter X, #102, “Sport as Incentive to Brotherhood.”
It’s close.