Cardinal Amato Died: Secretary of Cardinal Ratzinger - Called Homosexual Sins an "Evil"
Born in Molfetta, Italy, on 8 June 1938, Angelo Amato made his first religious profession with the Salesians of Don Bosco in 1956. He was ordained a priest in 1967 and a bishop in 2003.
Cardinal Amato was a "conservative". He worked for many years with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in what was then the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, becoming its secretary in 2002.
Benedict XVI appointed him Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints (2008-2018) and created him a Cardinal in 2010.
Controversies
In April 2007, as Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Amato spoke out against homosexual unions, abortion and euthanasia. He called homosexual 'marriage' an evil that was almost invisible because the media presented it as an 'expression of human progress'. The regime media manufactured outrage over these innocuous comments.
Other hyped comments were when Cardinal Amato stated in 2003 that a 1633 letter in the Vatican archives proved that the Roman Inquisition had not persecuted Galileo Galilei for claiming that the earth revolved around the sun, but for heretical theological ideas.
Amato added that Galileo was accorded every civility while residing at the Inquisition's pleasure: "His room was the apartment of the attorney - one of the highest officials of the Inquisition - where he was assisted by his own servant ... During the rest of his stay in Rome he was the guest of the Florentine ambassador at the Villa Medici" [an indication that, already then, heretics were treated in Rome better then defenders of the Faith.]
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