On 15 April 2005, a human rights lawyer filed a criminal complaint against Jorge Cardinal Bergoglio, accusing him of conspiring with the junta in 1976 to kidnap two Jesuit priests.

The current Cardinal Deacon of the Titulus S. Sabae is Jorge Medina Estévez.

The archdiocese of Buenos Aires is headed by Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, the current metropolitan archbishop.

Then in the ninth inning with St. Louis leading 1 – 0, Jorge Orta led off the bottom of the ninth with a ground ball to Cardinal first baseman Jack Clark, who flipped the ball to Cardinal pitcher Todd Worrell covering first.

In a country where the majority of the population are Roman Catholic, the approval of the law came despite strong opposition by the Catholic Church in Argentina led by the Catholic Primate of Argentina, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

Jorge Arturo Agustín Medina Estévez ( born December 23, 1926, in Santiago, Chile ) is a Chilean Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

In the most recent Habemus Papam announcement, given by Cardinal Jorge Medina Estévez on 19 April 2005 upon the election of Pope Benedict XVI, the announcement was preceded by a greeting in several languages:

Jorge María Mejía ( born January 31, 1923 in Buenos Aires, Argentina ) is an Argentine Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Pope John Paul II, with Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re and Monsignor Jorge Mejía, Titular Archbishop of Apollonia, consecrated Monsignor Javier Echevarria a bishop.

Medina was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave, and, following the conclusion of the conclave, as Cardinal Protodeacon ( the senior-most cardinal deacon ), he had the honor of announcing to the world the election of Pope Benedict XVI with the famous Habemus Papam formula ; as protodeacon, Cardinal Medina also imposed the petrine pallium on Pope Benedict XVI.

Cardinal Medina lost his right to participate in any future conclaves after December 23, 2006, when he turned 80 years of age.

The Senior Cardinal Deacon then announces from a balcony over St. Peter's Square the following proclamation: Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum!

* 2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church following the death of Pope John Paul II.

* 2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

On February 26, Bush issued a formal letter of apology to Cardinal John Joseph O ' Connor of New York for failing to denounce Bob Jones University's history of anti-Catholic statements.

Cardinal Leo Joseph Suenens, a moderator of the ecumenical council, questioned, " whether moral theology took sufficient account of scientific progress, which can help determine, what is according to nature.

" In March 1969, he had a meeting with one of the main critics of Humanae Vitae, Cardinal Leo Joseph Suenens.

And in 1984, when Joseph Ratzinger, then Cardinal Prefect of that Congregation, stated that he rejected the claim that children who die unbaptised cannot attain salvation, he was speaking for many academic theologians of his training and background.

The two candidates for the see were Cardinal William Egon of Fürstenberg, then Bishop of Strasbourg, and Joseph Clement, a brother of Max Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria.

Of those who took part in the council's opening session, four have become pontiffs to date: Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, who on succeeding Pope John XXIII took the name of Paul VI ; Bishop Albino Luciani, the future Pope John Paul I ; Bishop Karol Wojtyła, who became Pope John Paul II ; and Father Joseph Ratzinger, present as a theological consultant, who became Pope Benedict XVI.

( Cardinal Frings's theological advisor was the young Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, who would later, as Cardinal, head the same department of the Holy See.

* January 13 – Joseph Cardinal Zen, Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong

It was approved in a Plenary meeting of the Congregation, and bears the signature of its then Prefect, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, and of its then Secretary, Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, now Cardinal Secretary of State.

* Ratzinger, Joseph Cardinal, " Liberation Theology " ( preliminary notes to 1984 Instruction )

In 1558 Cardinal Madruzzo granted the privilege of printing Hebrew books to Joseph Ottolengo, a German rabbi.

In support of this statement Cardinal Patrick Joseph Hayes of New York provided his imprimatur to this effect.

Cardinal Caesar Baronius, the Vatican Librarian and historian ( d. 1609 ), recorded this voyage by Joseph of Arimathea, Lazarus, Mary Magdalene, Martha, Marcella and others in his Annales Ecclesiastici, volume 1, section 35.

" In 2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope later that year but was then Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, described the series as " subtle seductions, which act unnoticed and by this deeply distort Christianity in the soul before it can grow properly ," and gave permission for publication of the letter that expressed this opinion.

Patrick Joseph Hayes, the Cardinal Archbishop of New York, denounced him, implying that the immorality of the mayor, both personal and political in tolerating " girlie magazines " and casinos, was a cause of the economic downturn.

However, the veto ( jus exclusivae ) against Rampolla's nomination, by Polish Cardinal Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko from Kraków in the name of Emperor Franz Joseph ( 1848 – 1916 ) of Austria-Hungary, was proclaimed.

Then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, said of abuses in celebration of the liturgy: “ In the place of liturgy as the fruit of development came fabricated liturgy.

* Review of a book by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger ( now Pope Benedict XVI )

* John Patrick Cardinal Foley, former Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and former President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, lived in retirement at the Villa St. Joseph in Darby, a home for retired, infirm, and convalescent priests of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

He was baptised Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius on 25 November 1912 at Villa Wartholz by the Prince-Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Franz Xaver Nagl.

In a letter of 31 January 1985 to Cardinal Giuseppe Siri, regarding the book Poem of the Man God, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger ( then Prefect of the Congregation, who later became Pope Benedict XVI ), referred to the 1966 notification of the Congregation as follows: " After the dissolution of the Index, when some people thought the printing and distribution of the work was permitted, people were reminded again in L ' Osservatore Romano ( 15 June 1966 ) that, as was published in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis ( 1966 ), the Index retains its moral force despite its dissolution.

That the assessment of the contemporary situation advanced by John Paul II is not binding on the faithful was confirmed by Cardinal Ratzinger when he wrote in 2004 that,

Funeral of Pope John Paul II at the Vatican in 2005, presided over by Cardinal Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI

* Cardinal Ratzinger Answers The Main Objections Raised Against The Declaration Dominus Iesus

Cardinal Ratzinger, however, criticized liberation theology for elevating orthopraxis to the level of orthodoxy.

In March 1983, Cardinal Ratzinger ( now Pope Benedict XVI ) head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ( CDF ), made ten observations of Gutiérrez's theology, accusing Gutiérrez of politically interpreting the Bible in supporting temporal messianism, and stating that the predominance of orthopraxis over orthodoxy in his thought proved a Marxist influence.

Cardinal Ratzinger did praise liberation theology in some respects, including its ideal of justice, its rejection of violence, and its stress on " the responsibility which Christians necessarily bear for the poor and oppressed.

* From Ratzinger to Benedict by Avery Cardinal Dulles, Article in Feb 2006 edition of First Things

" Commenting on then Cardinal Ratzinger, he said, " Ratzinger, who is, in his mind-set, a Nazi " because he is " afraid to tell the truth ," and because he and John Paul II " won't even let themselves be in the presence of the truth, because it would shatter their very stylised view of things.

* Cardinal Ratzinger sends condolences to Monaco on Prince Rainier's death

" In 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope later that year but was at the time Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, described the series as " subtle seductions, which act unnoticed and by this deeply distort Christianity in the soul before it can grow properly ," and gave permission for publication of the letter that expressed this opinion.