Cardinal Ruini is hospitalized in intensive care: he had a coronary heart assault

The Cardinal Camillo Ruini93 years previous, former president of the Italian Episcopal Convention, is hospitalized in intensive care on the Policlinico Gemelli in Rome.

“Late yesterday night, Cardinal Camillo Ruini was admitted to the Gemelli Polyclinic as a matter of urgency for chest ache,” the hospital stated in a press release. “Given the cardinal’s superior age and medical historical past, admission to the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit was crucial. The affected person is alert and cooperative and his medical situations are at the moment secure. Monitoring and therapies proceed.”

The cardinal, as he has realized, Republictook communion at this time and is in “pretty good spirits”. If the parameters proceed to enhance, as has occurred in these hours, it isn’t excluded that he’ll go away intensive care tomorrow.

Hospitalization final evening

The cardinal, Ansa reported citing sources from the Vicariate of Rome, felt unwell late yesterday afternoon, in all probability on account of a coronary heart assault, and is now in intensive care on the Roman hospital the place he was rushed yesterday night. From what we be taught at this time, a message has been circulating by which the bishop Guerino of Tora he invited individuals to hope for his well being.

The rise with John Paul II

Born in Sassuolo, within the province of Modena, on 19 February 1931, Ruini, who graduated in philosophy and theology on the Pontifical Gregorian College within the years previous the Second Vatican Council, was ordained a priest in 1954. In 1983 he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Reggio Emilia by Pope John Paul IIwho already within the first years of his preach had set his sights on this good, environment friendly younger priest who, in one of many reddest areas of Italy, didn’t cover a deep anti-communism. Basic Secretary of the CEI in 1986, Karol Wojtyla in 1991 appointed him vicar basic for the diocese of Rome, created him cardinal and promoted him president of the Italian Episcopal Convention. A place he held till the period of Benedict XVI: in 2006 he left the management of the CEI to the cardinal Angel Bagnascothe next yr he was succeeded on the head of the Vicariate by Cardinal Augustine Vallini.

The period of “non-negotiable values”

Cardinal Ruini embodied an ecclesial period, making the CEI, on the time of the tip of Christian Democracy, a protagonist of Italian politics with the appearance of bipolarism and the descent into the sphere of Silvio Berlusconiwhom the cardinal thought-about a buddy. A buddy in his youth of Roman Prodi (in 1969 he celebrated his marriage with Flavia) the cardinal didn’t approve of the beginning of the Democratic Social gathering from the fusion of Catholic and post-communist tradition. His technique, based mostly on the protection of “non-negotiable values”, has concerned generally disruptive decisions: Ruini lined up the CEI for abstention on the event of the referendum on medically assisted procreation (2005), when in 2006 Piergiorgio Welby he selected to die, with the assistance of the radicals, the cardinal forbade him to have a spiritual funeral, in 2007 he mobilized in Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano the primary Household day, a gathering of all of the Catholic acronyms in opposition to the mission of a legislation to regularize same-sex {couples}.

The final years

Ruini led the Italian Church with a agency hand and didn’t have simple relations with Wojtyla’s Cardinal Secretary of State, Angel Sodanonor with that of Benedict XVI, Tarcisio Bertone. In 2009 the newspaper directed by Victor Feltri attacked one among his most trusted collaborators, Dino Boffowith revelations that led him to go away the newspaper’s administration To come back. His identify was mentioned for the 2005 Conclave. In 2013 he welcomed Benedict XVI’s resignation from the preach with a short assertion which confirmed his disappointment. He has by no means been in tune with Pope francesco. In an interview just lately revealed by Corriere della Sera he spoke about demise and the afterlife: “Greater than worry, I really feel remorse not just for the sins I dedicated however for the various issues I might have executed and didn’t do. I’ve devoted an excessive amount of time to myself and my books, even when I’m heartened by the love of so many individuals”.