March 6, 2013
(Romereports.com) French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran is 69 years old. He was born in
Bordeaux and was ordained at the age 26. Twenty years later, he began
working at the Vatican as a minister of foreign affairs.
His
career has quite a trajectory. As Vatican diplomat, he held an important
role as a mediator during the Iraq war. In 2003, he was appointed to
oversee the Vatican Secret Archives and the Vatican Library.
Today
he heads the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, and his
key responsibility is to foster the relationship, with other religions,
especially with the Muslim world.
CARD. JEAN-LOUIS TAURAN
Cardinal Deacon
Archive October 9, 2007
“We
need to talk with one another. It is necessary to discover the values
we have in common in order to make this world a better place. Religion
has to be what fosters peace not strife.”
As Cardinal
Deacon, he has an important role after the conclave comes to a close. If
he is not elected Pope, he has to go out to the balcony of St. Peter's
Basilica to tell the world that a Pope has been elected. He will
announce those two awaited and historic words of: “Habemus Papam.”
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