{"id":91564,"date":"2026-06-16T22:17:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=91564"},"modified":"2026-06-16T22:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:21:25","slug":"cardinal-ruini-dies-at-95-he-was-the-popes-envoy-to-investigate-medjugorje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2026\/06\/16\/cardinal-ruini-dies-at-95-he-was-the-popes-envoy-to-investigate-medjugorje\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Ruini dies at 95: he was the pope\u2019s envoy to investigate Medjugorje"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Italian Cardinal Camillo Ruini has died at the age of 95, after a long phase of declining health. The cardinal, originally from Modena, wielded enormous influence in the Roman Curia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most significant positions of his clerical career included his role as vicar general of the Diocese of Rome for 17 years, as well as his service as president of the Italian Bishops\u2019 Conference for three consecutive terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 2010 to 2014, under Pope Benedict XVI, he led an international commission established by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to investigate the apparitions of Medjugorje.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From this came the \u201cRuini Report,\u201d which concluded that the first apparitions in 1981 likely had supernatural origins, but it became more difficult to verify anything after that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cardinal Ruini\u2019s strongest papal friendship was with Pope St. John Paul II, with whom he spoke frequently and whom he always described as \u201cthe greatest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian Cardinal Camillo Ruini has died at the age of 95, after a long phase of declining health. The cardinal, originally from Modena, wielded enormous influence in the Roman Curia. The most significant positions of his clerical career included his role as vicar general of the Diocese of Rome for 17 years, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":91560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LY1s2ZbWBe0","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmorteruinieng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmorteruiniint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91564"}],"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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91567,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91564\/revisions\/91567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}