Cardinal Amato Died: Secretary of Cardinal Ratzinger - Called Homosexual Sins an "Evil"

Cardinal Angelo Amato, former Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints, died on 31 December. The funeral will be presided over by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re today. After that, Francis will preside at the final farewell.
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 …More