Cardinal oscar andres rodriguez maradiaga entrenador
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As a boy, he dreamed of playing the saxophone in a dance band or becoming a pilot.
Criticism
In 2008, he criticized the Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin for having two twin children through the surrogate or surrogate procedure, declaring that “it is diminishing the dignity of the human person, because a life that begins cannot be fruit of a rent […] It is as if they were raising cattle”.
He was ordained for the Salesians on 28 June 1970 and holds a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, and a diploma in clinical psychology and psychotherapy from Leopold Franz University, Innsbruck.
He taught chemistry, physics and music at various Salesian colleges in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala and was professor of moral theology and ecclesiology at the Salesian Theological Institute, Guatemala, and rector of the Salesian Philosophical Institute in the same country.
On 28 October 1978 he was appointed titular Bishop of Pudentiana and Auxiliary of Tegucigalpa, receiving episcopal ordination on 8 December.
He was promoted to Archbishop of Tegucigalpa on 8 January 1993 and was President of CELAM (1995-1999).
He is currently President of the Episcopal Conference of Honduras.
From 2007 to 2015 he was President of Caritas Internationalis.
On 13 April 2013 he was made a coordinator of the Council of cardinals established to advise Pope Francis in the government of the universal Church and to study a plan for revising the Apostolic Constitution on the Roman Curia,‘Pastor Bonus’.
He participated in the conclave of April 2005, which elected Pope Benedict XVI and in the conclave of March 2013, which elected Pope Francis.
On 26 January 2023 the Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan archdiocese of Tegucigalpa presented by His Eminence Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga.
Created and proclaimed Cardinal by the St.
John Paul II in the consistory of 21 February 2001, of the Title of Santa Maria della Speranza (Our Lady of Hope).
Controversies
During the 2009 coup against President Manuel Zelaya, Rodríguez Maradiaga sided with the de facto government.
Pope Francis ordered an investigation into the Honduran Church after an Italian magazine accused Honduran cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga of having collected large sums of money from a Catholic university for years.
Episcopacy
In 1981 he was named Bishop of the Diocese of Santa Rosa de Copán, a position he administered until 1984.
Between 1975 and 1978, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the Francisco Marroquín University of Guatemala, until he was appointed bishop on December 8, 1978. † (2005)
(2005)
He has spoken at Notre Dame on issues of Third World debt relief and has visited the University a number of times
Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., MetropolitanArchbishop emeritus of Tegucigalpa (Honduras), was born on 29 December 1942 in Tegucigalpa.
Former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, in a conversation with Cuban leader Fidel Castro, heard that the Catholic Church should make Maradiaga pontiff, because "he is very popular and knew how to play the trumpet." Beyond Maradiaga's musical merits, he is considered by Pope Francis as one of the strongest interlocutors since, since 2003, he guides Catholic Latin America.
On September 2, 2018, during mass on Sunday, Rodríguez Maradiaga referred to social networks as fecal networks, and suggested that the Honduran people believe what the main media outlets in the country say, even though those be contrary to what they think.
He received the Frankl Prize from the Vienna City Council in 2008 for his commitment to the poor. Andrés Rodríguez Orellana
Cardinalate
In the consistory of February 21, 2001, Pope John Paul II named him Cardinal of Santa María de la Esperanza and he was the first Honduran to obtain this dignity. Between 1963 and 1975 he taught elementary school and later was a professor of chemistry, physics, sacred music, and finally moral theology and ecclesiology.
"The colonialism of the past was based on warships and the new colonialism on money," he said. Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga