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Bernardin Cardinal Gantin
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was born in Toffo, Benin, West Africa, on May 08, 1922 in the archdiocese of Cotonou; there his surname translated "tree of iron" ("gan" meaning tree and "tin" meaning iron). When he died in Paris, Fiance, May 13, 2008, Gantin was semi-retired and officially Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Bishops and Dean Emeritus of the College of Cardinals, Roman Curia. As his name suggested, he had an iron will and had become the highestranking Black African cardinal in the entire Catholic Church, responsible for the world's Roman Catholic bishops. (A Cardinal is one level beneath the Pope and is usually the bishop of the city where he is located; the Pope is considered the Bishop of Rome). The following year a new pope, John Paul I, was elected and he appointed Ga...
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...It is an old story. A few years ago, Bernardin Cardinal Gantin, now retired as the prefect of the...
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NORMAN WHITFIELD - Songwriter and producer best known for his work with Berry Gordy's Motown during the 60s. His hits included "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," "Just My Imagination," "War," "Car Wash" and "Cloud Nine." He was an integral part of Motown's "hit factory" as well as one of the major figures in the sub-genre of psychedelic soul He was 67/68 (9/16) (2/26) KATOUCHA NIANA - First African woman to pin international stardom as a model (2/?) HENRIETTA BELL WELLS - The first Black woman on the debate team that was portrayed in "The Great Debaters." MILDRED LOVING-She was the plaintiff in a landmark case; Loving v Virginia where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the state of Virginia that its anti-miscegenation laws war racist and had been enacted to perpetuate white supremacy.
...She was 68. (5/2). CARDINAL BERNARDIN GANTIN-The highest-rankin Black African ...
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The former abbot primate of the Benedictines, who was architect of the 1986 USCCB pastoral letter Economic Justice for All and one of the leading progressive prelates in the U.S. church, was outed as a homosexual and accused of sexual abuse on national television just as outrage over clerical abuse of children was becoming front-page news across the nation. (The late Cardinal John Dearden, archbishop of Detroit, was a leader of reform-minded bishops at Vatican II.) This is a long but gracefully written book, put into final form with help from former Commonweal editor Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, who also wrote the foreword. In New York, Weakland spent four years in residence at St. Malachy's, on Forty-ninth Street off Broadway, where Msgr.\n Throughout the narrative, he offers a "chron...
... friends Cardinals Sebastiano Baggio and Bernardin Gantin, and even Joseph Ratzinger, who comes off w...
