Francis Arinze
Francis Arinze
Francis Arinzeis a Nigerian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, having served as prefect from 2002 to 2008. He is the current Cardinal Bishop of Velletri-Segnisince 2005. Arinze was one of the principal advisors to Pope John Paul II, and was considered papabile before the 2005 papal conclave, which elected Benedict XVI...
NationalityNigerian
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth1 November 1932
CountryNigeria
It's not a deception, ... What John Paul II said was that these tribunals must work according to truth, and not according to 'Oh, these people are suffering so and let us declare it invalid.'
is not something that we own and that we can give out to whoever we want, to our friends, to those who suffer.
The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.
Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.
There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.