{"id":47686,"date":"2019-09-05T13:42:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T11:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2019\/09\/05\/french-cardinal-roger-etchegaray-one-of-the-most-active-in-recent-decades-dies\/"},"modified":"2019-09-05T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T11:42:00","slug":"french-cardinal-roger-etchegaray-one-of-the-most-active-in-recent-decades-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2019\/09\/05\/french-cardinal-roger-etchegaray-one-of-the-most-active-in-recent-decades-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"French cardinal Roger Etchegaray, one of the most active in recent decades, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Roger Etchegaray passed away in France on Wednesday evening, September 4. He was soon to turn 97 years old.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis received the news in Mozambique and remembered him as \u201ca man of dialogue and peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Paul II appointed him cardinal in 1979. He was one of the most esteemed persons in the Vatican.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He was the organizer of the first meeting in Assisi in 1986, which brought together the pope and leaders of other religions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He supported John Paul II's idea to ask for forgiveness for the Church's past faults, during the Jubilee year of 2000.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pope also asked him to meet personally with Saddam Hussein to stop the war in Iraq.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, during Christmas Eve 2009 he fell to the ground when a young woman tried to violently greet Benedict XVI.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In October 2015 he broke his hip during a Mass at St. Peter's.<\/p>\n<p>For years he has been living in retirement in the south of France. There he was visited by the cardinal and Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The College of Cardinals is now 213, 118 of which are able to vote in an eventual conclave. This number will change though on October 5 when the pope elets new cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>Javier Mart\u00ednez-Brocal<br \/>\nSean Richadrson&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 5, 2019. He supported the Church's petition for forgiveness in 2000 and met with Saddam Hussein to try to stop the war in Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Vx5Q9ovHWNc","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcardecthegarayeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcardecthegarayint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}