![]() ![]() He entered the Society of Jesus on 25 September 1944 and was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Maurilio Fossati on 13 July 1952. He was educated at Istituto Sociale, a school run by Jesuits in Turin. He was baptised on the following 22 February. The pedophilia scandals oblige us to take a journey of transformation." Early life and education Ĭarlo Maria Martini was born 15 February 1927 in Orbassano in the Province of Turin, Piedmont, to Leonardo, an engineer, and Olga (née Maggia) Martini. The Church must admit its mistakes and begin a radical change, starting from the Pope and the bishops. Hours after his death, the Italian daily Corriere della Sera printed his final interview, in which he described the church as "200 years out of date", commenting: "Our culture has aged, our churches are big and empty and the church bureaucracy rises up. He died at the Jesuit Aloisianum College in Gallarate near Milan, eight years after. Suffering from a rare form of Parkinson's disease, he retired as archbishop in 2004 and moved to the Pontifical Institute in Jerusalem. He was on the liberal wing of the church hierarchy. His appointment as Archbishop of Milan in 1980 was an unusual circumstance, as Jesuits are not traditionally named bishops. Martini entered the Society of Jesus in 1944 and was ordained a priest in 1952. Ratzinger ended up with more votes in subsequent rounds and was elected Pope Benedict XVI. According to highly placed Vatican sources, Martini received more votes in the first round than Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the conservative candidate: 40 to 38. A towering intellectual figure of the Roman Catholic Church, Martini was the liberal contender for the Papacy in the 2005 conclave, following the death of Pope John Paul II. He was Archbishop of Milan from 1980 to 2004 and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1983. ("For the love of truth, dare to choose adverse situations")Ĭarlo Maria Martini SJ (15 February 1927 – 31 August 2012) was an Italian Jesuit, cardinal of the Catholic Church and a Biblical scholar.
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