Roberto Tucci

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Roberto Cardinal Tucci SJ (born April 19, 1921 in Naples , Italy , † April 14, 2015 in Rome ) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Roberto Tucci entered the Jesuit order after finishing school and received the sacrament of ordination in 1950 after completing his theological and philosophical studies . After further studies he obtained his doctorate in philosophy in Naples and a doctorate in theology in Rome .

After a few years in pastoral care , he became editor and publisher of the magazine La Civiltà Cattolica from 1959 to 1973 and participated as an expert at the Second Vatican Council . As a specialist in Catholic social teaching, he worked as an advisor to the Pontifical Council for Social Issues. From 1961 to 1982 he was Deputy President of the Italian Catholic Press Association, from 1967 to 1969 he was Secretary General of the Italian Province of the Jesuit Order.

In 1973 Pope Paul VI appointed him . as managing director of Radio Vatican . Since 1982 Roberto Tucci, as papal travel marshal, was responsible for the organization and implementation of all of the Pope's trips abroad.

Pope John Paul II accepted him on February 21, 2001 as a cardinal deacon with the titular diaconia Sant'Ignazio di Loyola in Campo Marzio in the college of cardinals . The Pope exempted the almost eighty-year-old from the canonical duty of episcopal ordination for cardinals. On 21 February 2011 he was maintaining its pro illa vice to the titular church declared Title Diakonie to Cardinal priests charged.

Web links

• Entry on Roberto Tucci on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cardinal Tucci died. Vatican Radio , April 15, 2015, accessed April 15, 2015 . 
2. ^ Corpus Iuris Canonici Can. 351 § 1 : "Anyone who is not yet a bishop must receive episcopal ordination."