Cardinal Stafford Retires
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 8:49 AM
Cardinal J. Francis Stafford (CNS)
American Cardinal Francis Stafford, the former archbishop of Denver, has retired as head of the Vatican’s Apostolic Penitentiary.
Prior to being appointed to lead the Apostolic Penitentiary in 2003, Cardinal Stafford served as president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity after Pope John Paul II asked him to leave his post as archbishop of Denver in 1996.
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Cardinal Calls Out Obama
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:02 PM
Cardinal J. Francis Stafford (CNS)
Cardinal J. Francis Stafford had some sharp words of criticism for President-elect Barack Obama last week.
Speaking Nov. 13 at The Catholic University of America, the former archbishop of Denver called Obama “aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic” and said that he campaigned on an “extremist anti-life platform,” Beliefnet.com reported.
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