Antonio Quarracino
Antonio Cardinal Quarracino (born August 8, 1923 in Pollica , Italy , † February 28, 1998 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) was Archbishop of La Plata and later of Buenos Aires .
Life
Antonio Quarracino grew up as a child of Italian emigrants from the age of five in Argentina. After finishing school he studied Catholic theology and philosophy in the seminary of La Plata . He received the sacrament of ordination for the diocese of Mercedes on December 22, 1945 in Luján . From 1945 to 1962 he taught at the seminary of the diocese of Mercedes. In addition, he performed various tasks in the diocesan administration and was responsible for the Catholic youth groups of the diocese for many years .
On February 3, 1962 he was by Pope John XXIII. appointed Bishop of Nueve de Julio . The bishop of Mercedes, Anunciado Serafini , ordained him episcopal on April 8th of the same year. Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Catamarca , Adolfo Tortolo , and the Bishop of San Rafael , Raúl Francisco Primatesta .
He participated in all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 .
Pope Paul VI appointed him on August 3, 1968 Bishop of Avellaneda . The inauguration took place on October 5th of the same year. At the end of 1978 he was sent by the Vatican to the Archdiocese of San Salvador as Apostolic Visitator during Óscar Romero's term in office . After his visitation he recommended that an Apostolic Administrator sede plena be set up in Romero's Archdiocese . In doing so he declared Romero, who was oriented towards liberation theology , to be incapable of exercising his episcopal office. Ultimately, however, there was no factual disempowerment of Romero, who was murdered by the Salvadoran military in 1980.
On December 18, 1985, Pope John Paul II appointed him Archbishop of La Plata. The inauguration followed on April 5 of the next year. He was named Archbishop of Buenos Aires on October 30, 1990, and was introduced to the office on November 22.
Quarracino's sharply negative attitude towards homosexuality was controversial ; He called same-sex love "a stain on the face of society" and proposed ghettoizing homosexuals. A complaint was filed against him, whereupon he described his proposal as a "joke" but declared that he did not feel "morally" guilty. Quarracino welcomed and supported the Carlos Menem's amnesty for perpetrators who had been convicted of crimes during the military dictatorship under Menem's predecessor Raúl Alfonsín , as a contribution to a “national reconciliation”.
From 1990 to 1996 Antonio Quarracino was President of the Argentine Bishops' Conference . On June 28, 1991, John Paul II accepted him as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Maria della Salute a Primavalle in the college of cardinals . Antonio Quarracino was appointed Grand Crusader of the Order in 1997 by Cardinal Grand Master Giuseppe Caprio for his commitment to the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . He has received awards from Jewish organizations for his services to interreligious dialogue.
He died of cardiac arrest in Buenos Aires on February 28, 1998 and was buried in the local cathedral .
Individual evidence
- ↑ JR Brockman: Oscar Romero. A biography. Friborg 1990, p. 220.
- ↑ Gabriel Escobar: Cardinal's Comments on Gays Backfires in Argentina. Washington Post , September 24, 1994
- ↑ Austen Ivereigh: The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope. Picador 2015
- ↑ “La Orden de Argentina” , Orden de Caballería del Santo Sepulcro de Jerusalén , accessed on August 3, 2012 (Spanish)
Web links
- Entry on Antonio Quarracino on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved February 27, 2013.
- Quarracino, Antonio. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed July 3, 2018.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Agustín Adolfo Herrera |
Bishop of Nueve de Julio 1962–1968 |
Alejo Benedicto Gilligan |
| Jerónimo José Podestá |
Bishop of Avellaneda 1968–1985 |
Rubén Héctor di Monte |
| Antonio José Plaza |
Archbishop of La Plata 1985–1990 |
Carlos Walter Galán Barry |
| Juan Carlos Cardinal Aramburu |
Full Professor of Byzantine Believers in Argentina 1990–1998 |
Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio SJ |
| Juan Carlos Cardinal Aramburu |
Archbishop of Buenos Aires 1990–1998 |
Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio SJ |
| Raúl Francisco Cardinal Primatesta |
President of the Bishops' Conference of Argentina 1990–1996 |
Estanislao Esteban Karlic |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quarracino, Antonio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Quarracino, Cardinal Antonio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine priest, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pollica , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1998 |
| Place of death | Buenos Aires , Argentina |