1. Carlo Caffarra was an Italian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Bologna from 2003 until 2015.
13 Facts About Carlo Caffarra
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Carlo Caffarra was created a cardinal on 24 March 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI.
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Carlo Caffarra was educated at the Episcopal Seminary of Fidenza and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he completed a doctorate in Canon law.
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Carlo Caffarra was ordained a priest on 2 July 1961 in Rome.
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Carlo Caffarra taught medical ethics in the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the Universita Cattolica's campus in Rome.
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Carlo Caffarra was the first President of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family from its establishment in 1980 until 1995 and founded sections of the same institute in the United States, Spain and Mexico.
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Carlo Caffarra was named Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio on 8 September 1995, and consecrated on 21 October 1995 in the Cathedral of Fidenza by Giacomo Biffi, Archbishop of Bologna.
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Carlo Caffarra was appointed Archbishop of the Bologna on 16 December 2003 and installed there on 15 February 2004.
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On 24 August 2005 Carlo Caffarra held the central intervention "Freedom as liberation" at the annual Rimini Meeting of Communion and Liberation.
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Carlo Caffarra was identified at the time as "a strong conservative" voice for the opposition of the Catholic Church to the modern world and one of Benedict XVI's less centrist appointments to the College of Cardinals.
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Carlo Caffarra participated as a cardinal elector in the 2013 papal conclave that elected Pope Francis.
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Pope Francis named him to participate in the Synod on the Family in October 2014, in advance of which Carlo Caffarra authored an essay that argued that Catholics who divorce and remarry must be denied access to the Eucharist because their situation "is in objective contradiction with that bond of love that unites Christ and the Church, which is signified and actualized by the Eucharist".
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In June 2017, Carlo Caffarra wrote on behalf of the four asking Francis for an audience to discuss their questions.