Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone

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Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone (sometimes referred to in the media as Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone) is a Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal. He is currently the Archbishop of Genoa and Cardinal Priest of S. Maria Auxiliatrice in via Tuscolana. On 22 June 2006 he was nominated to serve as the Cardinal Secretary of State, to take office on 15 September.

Biography

Bertone was born 2 December 1934 in Romano Canavese, Piedmont, the fifth of eight children. He entered the Salesian order in 1950, and was ordained in 1960. The holder of a doctorate in Canon law, Bertone has taught extensively on the subject, and was appointed Rector of the Pontifical Salesian University (where he himself had studied) in 1989.

In 1991, Bertone was appointed Archbishop of Vercelli by Pope John Paul II; he held that post until his resignation in 1995, when he was named Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a position within the Roman Curia. He was appointed Archbishop of Genoa in 2002 and elevated to the College of Cardinals in 2003, being associated as Cardinal Priest of Sanctae Mariae Auxiliatricis in via Tusculana.

As a member of the Society of Don Bosco he is still considered as a priest who has undertaken work with youth who, in Pope John Paul's last words, he had sought throughout his papacy. Moreover, Bertone's dissertation on tolerance and religious freedom has given him a good start as a theologian and canonist in a crisis-ridden world. He actually later specialized in the relationship between social morality, faith and politics. He also helped in the revision of Code of Canon Law, was Rector of Salesian University and undertook pastoral work in parishes.

In the Jubilee Year 2000, Cardinal Bertone was entrusted by Pope John Paul II with the publication of third part of the secret of Fatima.

Bertone was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.

Styles of Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Genoa

On March 15, 2005, Bertone was in the news for "breaking the church's silence" and sharply criticizing Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code, saying the book's central concept that Jesus had been married to Mary Magdalene and fathered a bloodline was heresy and "shameful", and that believers should boycott the book. Both Bertone and official Vatican spokespeople insisted that Bertone was not speaking as an official representative of the church, but it was also noted that Bertone's high placement within the Church hierarchy (his name was often cited as a potential candidate for the next pontiff) gave his words considerable weight, such that his comments were often reported by various media as an official statement from the Vatican. [link] In 2006, the NBC news program Dateline described his statement as, "a high-ranking Vatican Cardinal called for a boycott of the film."

On June 22, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Cardinal Bertone to replace Angelo Cardinal Sodano as the Cardinal Secretary of State. Bertone will assume the new office on September 15, 2006.

External links

• [Biography at catholic-pages.com]
• [Tarcisio Bertone, Salesian Cardinal]

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