VATICAN CITY
Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno
(ANSA) – Vatican City, March 4 – Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras said Monday transparency was needed in the next papacy and that Benedict XVI’s “clean-up” initiatives must go forward.
“I am convinced that the clean-up initiatives of (former Cardinal Joseph) Ratzinger had to continue because it is written in the Gospels that the truth shall set you free,” said Maradiaga, whom many have signalled as a possible candidate for pope.
“We must present a Church with a transparent face, one that is at peace and at ease”.
Maradiaga was speaking outside the first general congregation of cardinals ahead of the conclave to elect a new pope.
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