{"id":27151,"date":"2012-08-31T07:33:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T11:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/cardinal-carlo-maria-martini-n\/"},"modified":"2014-07-17T09:58:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T13:58:01","slug":"cardinal-carlo-maria-martini-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/cardinal-carlo-maria-martini-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Carlo%20Maria%20Martini%2C%20SJ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" alt=\"Carlo Maria Martini, SJ.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/08\/Carlo Maria Martini, SJ-thumb-285x200-12581.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\">\n<p>The famed Jesuit Cardinal\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Carlo Maria Martini\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carlo_Maria_Martini\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Carlo Maria Martini<\/a><\/strong>, 85, died today following a long battle with Parkinson&#8217;s disease. He had been living at a Jesuit retirement home near Milan.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Turin, Carlo Maria Martini entered the Society of Jesus in 1944, was ordained a priest in 1952, being solemnly professed of four vows as a Jesuit in 1962, a bishop in 1980 and created a cardinal in 1983. He retired in 2002 and participated in the conclave that elected Benedict.<\/p>\n<p>By training Martini earned two doctorates and he is known as a Scripture scholar (working on the Gospel of Luke) \u00a0having been the head of the Biblicum at the time of his appointment to the archbishopric of Milan. A man of great sensitivity for the spiritual life and sacred Scripture, Martini, in his healthy years, was sought after as a retreat master. His insight in Ignatian spirituality has aided many people.<\/p>\n<p>With Cardinal Martini&#8217;s death the College of Cardinals numbers 206 members, 118 of whom are able to enter a conclave to elect a new pope.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Ambrose and Blessed Ildefonso, pray Cardinal Carlo Maria, and for us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famed Jesuit Cardinal\u00a0Carlo Maria Martini, 85, died today following a long battle with Parkinson&#8217;s disease. He had been living at a Jesuit retirement home near Milan. Born in Turin, Carlo Maria Martini entered the Society of Jesus in 1944, was ordained a priest in 1952, being solemnly professed of four vows as a Jesuit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/cardinal-carlo-maria-martini-n\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini dies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[1838],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31244,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27151\/revisions\/31244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}