Commending Cardinal Biffi’s Remarks on Immigration

Angelo Cardinal Sodano

Function: Former Secretary of State, Roman Curia

Title: Cardinal Bishop of Suburbicarian See of Ostia

Birthdate: Nov 23, 1927	Country: Italy

Elevated: Jun 28, 1991	More information: www.catholic-hierarchy.org

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Commending Cardinal Biffi’s Remarks on Immigration
Sept 16, 2004
An archbishop's call for Italy to admit only Catholic immigrants to preserve its national identity was given Vatican backing yesterday.

(16 September 2000) The Church was facing "one of the most serious and biggest assaults on Christianity that history remembers", Cardinal Giacomo Biffi told 200 priests in his Bologna archdiocese. He said on Wednesday: "Italy is not a deserted land with no history or traditions . . . that can be populated at random."

Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican Secretary of State, yesterday called the Cardinal Biffi's words "wise, very wise," and said they deserved to be "understood, not twisted".

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