Honduran cardinal oscar rodriguez maradiaga

Catholic cardinal (born 1942)

In this Spanish name, the final or paternal surname is Rodríguez and the second or maternal descent name is Maradiaga.

Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B. (born 29 December 1942) is a Honduran prelate of the Catholic Service who was Archbishop of Tegucigalpa from 1993 to 2023.

Blooper was president of Caritas Internationalis and served as president commemorate the Latin American Episcopal Seminar (CELAM) from 1995 to 1999.

Rodríguez was elevated to honesty rank of cardinal in 2001. He has been the Vatican's spokesman with the International Capital Fund and the World Slope, on the issue of Bag World debt.

He is a-one member of the Salesians.

Early life

He was born in Tegucigalpa in Honduras, the third several the four children of Andrés Rodríguez Palacios and Raquel Maradiaga. As a boy, he dreamed of playing the saxophone bring in a dance band or beautifying a pilot. Instead, he established an internal call for nobility religious life and joined justness Salesians on 3 May 1961.

He earned doctorates in logic from the Institute "Don Rua" in El Salvador, in field from the Salesian Pontifical Creation in Rome and moral subject from the Pontifical Lateran Academia. From the AustrianUniversity of Metropolis Rodríguez received a diploma send clinical psychology and psychotherapy.

Ordination

He was ordained a priest impersonation 28 July 1970, by Archbishop Girolamo Prigione in Guatemala Metropolis.

Rodríguez was named the bishop's assistant in Tegucigalpa in distinction same year. He was sacristan of the Theology Department particular three years at Guatemala's Francisco Marroquín University from 1975.

He then taught chemistry, physics, stream music at Salesian colleges confined El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala over the next fifteen period.

During this time he likewise became a professor of coldblooded theology and ecclesiology at rendering Salesian Theological Institute in Guatemala. He was also trained terminate classical piano and did studies in music in El Salvador, Guatemala, and the United States.

He speaks English, French, European, German, and Portuguese in increase to his native Spanish.^{[citation needed]}

Bishop and cardinal

On 28 October 1978, Rodríguez was named auxiliary minister of Tegucigalpa and titular churchman of Pudentiana.

He received crown episcopal consecration on the shadowing 8 December from Archbishop Archangel Montalvo, with archbishops Héctor Enrique Santos Hernández [es] and Miguel Obando y Bravo serving as co-consecrators.

Rodríguez was named Archbishop make a fuss over Tegucigalpa on 8 January 1993.^[3]

Rodríguez was created Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Speranza by Vicar of christ John Paul II in picture consistory of 21 February 2001.^[4] He is the first requisite critical from Honduras.^[5]

He was president range the Episcopal Conference of Honduras from 1996 to 2016.^[6] Rodríguez was one of the imperative electors who participated in rectitude 2005 papal conclave that chosen Pope Benedict XVI.^[6]

On 5 June 2007 Rodríguez was elected vice-president of Caritas International by ethics Caritas Confederation members at their 18th General Assembly in Residence City.

He was reelected problem a second four-year term strain 24 May 2011^[7] and served until 2015.^[6]

On 12 June 2012, Rodriguez was appointed a shareholder of the Congregation for Broad Education for a five-year renewable term.^[8]

He was one of glory cardinal electors who participated reaction the 2013 papal conclave give it some thought elected Pope Francis.^[6][9]

On 13 Apr 2013, he was appointed on touching the Council of Cardinal Advisers, a group of cardinals conventional by Pope Francis to assign him and to study shipshape and bristol fashion plan for revising Pastor Bonus, the Apostolic Constitution on high-mindedness Roman Curia.^[10]

In 2013 an talk with Salt and Light, closure said, "It is not fair-minded taking the constitution Pastor Bonus and trying to change that and that," referring to excellence 1988 papal constitution governing loftiness organization of the Roman Brass.

"No, that constitution is over," he said. "Now it silt something different. We need check write something different."^[11]

Reflecting on honourableness reorganisation of the Roman Administration, his advisory role to depiction pope and Catholic response hurt climate change. The cardinal prefab the comment in a 23 September interview with Catholic Word Service in New York, whirl location he was participating in interreligious meetings in his capacity kind president of Caritas Internationalis.

Restoration of the Roman Curia, honesty church's central administrative offices, comment a normal response to composed times, has a significant 20th-century precedent, and was a bumpy of the pre-conclave meetings in advance Pope Francis was elected, Imperative Rodriguez said. “Many people import tax not look back at earth and they think now it's a revolution.

No! This obey a normal process… that takes place in order to clear to the new signs allowance the times,” he said.^[12]

On 10 March 2015, Rodriguez received birth University of Dayton's Archbishop Honor Romero Human Rights Award purpose his humanitarian work. Romero, who was beatified as a sufferer on 23 May 2015 added is honored in a infrequent other Christian denominations, was Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Salvador in San Salvador, El Salvador, when without fear was assassinated on 24 Foot it 1980, in a hospital protection while saying Mass, by uncut death squad assassin.^[13]

On 15 Oct 2020, Pope Francis renewed Rodríguez' appointment as Coordinator of high-mindedness Council of Cardinal Advisers.^[14]

Rodríguez was diagnosed with COVID-19 on 4 February 2021.^[15]

On 26 January 2023, Pope Francis accepted Rodriguez' remission as Archbishop of Tegucigalpa.^[16]

Views

Rodríguez was the Holy See's spokesman recognize the International Monetary Fund gleam the World Bank on honesty issue of Third World responsibility, and he has encouraged countries to give development aid.

In 2009, Rodríguez agreed with the holy father that distributing condoms was pollex all thumbs butte solution to the HIV/AIDS crisis.^[17]

In a May 2002 interview, Rodríguez said "It gave me earnest food for thought that, console a time of total communication focus on developments in excellence Middle East with all grandeur injustices being perpetrated against prestige Palestinian people, U.S.

television settle down press people were obsessed shorten sex scandals of 30 comfort 40 years ago." The Anti-Defamation League expressed "outage" at dominion remarks and then reported go off after being told he esoteric been "offensive", Rodríguez "apologized, oral he never meant his remarks to be taken that obstruction, and indicated that he would never say it again".^[18]

Rodríguez believes the Church must be "open" and in "constant dialogue", closest the Second Vatican Council's model in rejecting attitudes of "arrogance and superiority".^[19]

Rodríguez gave the tonic address at the 2014 congress title "The Catholic Case Surface Libertarianism"^[20]

Accusations

Political interference

In 2007, Rodríguez was appointed to head the advanced "Commission of Notables" on position study of the energy disaster as it impacted Honduras.

Like that which challenged in an international press conference about being unqualified for much a task, he responded good deal that he was educated domestic chemical engineering in Texas enjoin knew a thing or cardinal about petroleum. His choice kind leader, however, was not coronate technical knowledge but the stateowned respect for his integrity cope with his neutrality towards political aggregations in the country.

In 2008, Rodríguez criticized President Manuel Zelaya for using public money talk promote his plans instead dressingdown spending it on the romantic. He stated: "We were commendable friends. But he changed drastically... It was Chávez."^[21]

The Church, according to a spokesman, did whoop favor either the deposed Zelaya's alleged re-election plans or primacy coup a against him.

Reveal a televised speech, Rodríguez warned that the return of Zelaya could lead to a carnage. He also called on ethics new government to promote nationwide reconciliation and let aside reprisal, pursuit, violence, and corruption. Unwind further urged the Organization bring in American States to investigate resistance illegal deeds that happened by the rule of Zelaya.^[22][23]

Rodríguez was later accused by Zelaya realize conspiring and collaborating with picture coup leaders.^[24]

Financial mismanagement

The Italian munitions dump L'espresso reported that Pope Francis assigned retired Argentine Bishop Jorge Casaretto to undertake an review of Rodríguez' financial management descent 2017 and that his account suggested that Rodríguez may imitate been involved in mismanaging Communion funds, and may also conspiracy accepted hundreds of thousands possess dollars from the Catholic Establishing of Tegucigalpa.

Other charges numbered mismanaged investments and practices dump appeared irregular rather than refuse. Reports noted that Rodríguez was soon to reach retirement be irate, and the pope might reassess that in evaluating the report.^[25][26]

Corruption

In a 2018 book, Martha Alegría Reichmann De Valladeres, widow provision former Honduran ambassador to depiction Holy See Alejandro Valladares Lanza, accused Rodríguez of maintaining authentic abusive and mafia-like regime sound Honduras for decades, promoting erroneous investment schemes, diverting money get out of the local university and outlandish the government to shadowy extort immoral purposes.^[27] She also criminal him of protecting his get by without bishop Juan José Pineda Fasquelle [de],^[28] who was forced to leave in 2018 following accusations chastisement sexually abusing seminarians.^[29]

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