✣Highlights from the week online
Sodano: influential and controversial “When it comes to Vatican scandals, a few names tend to surface every time a new crisis comes to light,” wrote Elise Harris at Crux. “At the top of most lists would be Italian Cardinal Angelo Sodano, easily among the most influential Vatican officials over the past three decades.”
Numerous times, she said, Sodano’s namehas been attached to accusations that he either defended an abuser or tried to cushion their fall.
Cardinal Sodano served as secretary of state for nearly 20 years under John Paul II and briefly under Benedict XVI; now, aged 90, he is still a powerful figure at the Vatican as Dean of the College of Cardinals.
