Cardeal tarcisio bertone biography

Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone SDB (born 2 December 1934) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church and a Vatican diplomat.
Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone was born in Romano Canavese, in Salesian Piedmont, on 2 December 1934, as the fifth of eight children, and was.
Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone SDB (born 2 December 1934) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church and a Vatican diplomat.

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This Growing Scandal Could Bring Down The Second Most Important Person In The Vatican

Getty / Franco Origlia

The Vatican is in the midst of an unprecedented series of scandals after the leak of a huge treasure trove of suppressed documents given to a notorious investigative journalist last year.

But who leaked the "Vatileaks" and why?

The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone has played down the scandals, insisting it's just the result of journalists "pretending to be Dan Brown". He also, cryptically, blamed the "devil".

But Cardinal Bertone should probably be worried — he's thought to be the target of the leaks.

Vatileak's begins

Journalist Gianlugi Nuzzi, notorious for a series of books about the Vatican, was reportedly vetted for months before being given the documents by an unknown source, known only as "Maria", the Daily Beast reports. Nuzzi began revealing the information in the documents in his TV show The Untouchables last year, before publishing full details in a book last month, Sua Santità—Le Carte Segrete di Benedetto XVI.

The docu

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Raúl Castro recebe cardeal em Havana

27 de fevereiro de 2008

O presidente de Cuba, Raúl Castro, recebeu nesta terça-feira o secretário de Estado do Vaticano, cardealTarcisio Bertone, em seu primeiro encontro com uma autoridade estrangeira após ser eleito. Bertone é o segundo na hierarquia do Vaticano.

A reunião com Raúl consistia no último tópico da apertada agenda que durante seis dias levou o cardeal a várias cidades de Cuba, em comemoração à visita feita há dez anos pelo então Papa João Paulo II à ilha.

O líder cubano, que vestia um terno azul, recebeu Bertone ao lado do vice-presidente, Carlos Lage, do chanceler Felipe Pérez Roque e de outros funcionários do governo cubano.

Antes da reunião com o novo presidente, o enviado do Papa Bento XVI celebrou uma missa para religiosos salesianos e visitou a Escola Latino-Americana de Medicina, na qual estão matriculados dez mil jovens de 30 países, muitos deles católicos.

É a terceira visita de Bertone a Cuba - já esteve na ilha em 2001, quando era secretário da Sagrada Congregação para a Doutrina da Fé (Santo Ofí

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Tarcisio Bertone

Italian prelate and Vatican diplomat (born 1934)

Tarcisio Pietro Evasio BertoneSDB (born 2 December 1934) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church and a Vatican diplomat. A cardinal since 2003, he served as Archbishop of Vercelli from 1991 to 1995, as Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop of Genoa from 2002 to 2006, and as Cardinal Secretary of State from 2006 to 2013. On 10 May 2008, he was named Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati.

Bertone served as Camerlengo from 2007 to 2014. In the period between Pope Benedict XVI's resignation on 28 February 2013 and the election of Pope Francis on 13 March 2013, he served temporarily as the administrator of the Holy See and acting head of state of the Vatican City State. He was considered a contender to succeed Benedict XVI.^[1]

Besides his native Italian, Bertone speaks fluent French, Spanish, German and Portuguese. He has some knowledge of English, although he is not fluent, and he can read Polish, Latin, Greek and Hebrew.

Early life

Bertone was born in Romano Ca