ROME
Tribune-Review
By Betsy Hiel
Published: Tuesday, March 5, 2013
ROME – Two American cardinals with Pittsburgh roots said Roman Catholic officials will closely examine the church’s troubles before choosing a pope.
Cardinals Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston and Sean O’Malley of Boston stepped from a College of Cardinals’ meeting on Tuesday to talk with reporters about church operations, including a scandal that embarrassed the resigned Pope Benedict XVI.
Terrence Tilley, Fordham University’s theology department chairman and a professor of Catholic theology, described their remarks as “unusual.”
“They are sending a message,” he said.
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