Friday, October 21, 2011

Vatican Diary / Four tickets for Venice, but only one is valid


Who will be the new patriarch in the place of Cardinal Scola? Name by name, the candidates and their supporters. The ambitions of the Community of Saint Egidio. The favorite of secretary of state Bertone 


VATICAN CITY, October 21, 2011 – The patriarchate of Venice is the smallest of the Italian dioceses whose office holder is traditionally assigned the cardinal's biretta (the others are, from largest to smallest, Milan, Turin, Naples, Bologna, Palermo, Florence, and Genoa, to which must be added Rome, which has the figure of the cardinal vicar).

 

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