Darío Castrillón Hoyos | |
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| Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy | |
 Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos in 2008 | |
| Appointed | 15 June 1996 |
| Term ended | 31 October 2006 |
| Predecessor | Jose Tomas Sanchez |
| Successor | Cláudio Hummes |
| Other post(s) | Cardinal-Priest ofSS. Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano |
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| Orders | |
| Ordination | 26 October 1952 by Alfonso Carinci |
| Consecration | 18 July 1971 by Angelo Palmas |
| Created cardinal | 21 February 1998 byPope John Paul II |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1929-07-04)4 July 1929 Medellín, Colombia |
| Died | 18 May 2018(2018-05-18) (aged 88) Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Motto | Latin:Christus in vobis spes gloriae,lit. 'Christ in you, the hope of glory' |
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Darío del Niño Jesús Castrillón Hoyos (4 July 1929 – 18 May 2018) was a Colombiancardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Prefect of theCongregation for the Clergy from 1996 to 2006 and President of thePontifical CommissionEcclesia Dei from 2000 until his retirement in 2009. He was made a cardinal in 1998.
Born inMedellín, Colombia, Castrillón Hoyos attended the seminaries inAntioquia andSanta Rosa de Osos before studying at thePontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He wasordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Alfonso Carinci on 26 October 1952. He obtained adoctorate in canon law and specialization inreligious sociology,political economics, andethical economics from the Gregorian. Castrillón Hoyos also studied at the Sociology Faculty of theUniversity of Louvain in Belgium.
Upon returning to Colombia, he served as acurate for two rural parishes inYarumal from 1954 to 1971. He then served as director ofCursillos, of the national pastoral program, and of theLegion of Mary. After becoming an official in thediocesancuria of Santa Rosa de Osos, Castrillón was made director ofradiophonic schools. In 1959 he became the diocesan delegate ofCatholic Action, and also worked as ecclesiastical assistant to theCatholic Workers Youth. He didcatechetical and curial work before serving as general secretary of theColombian Episcopal Conference.
On 2 June 1971, Castrillón Hoyos was appointedCoadjutor Bishop ofPereira andTitular Bishop of Villa Regis byPope Paul VI. He received hisepiscopal consecration on 18 July from ArchbishopAngelo Palmas, with ArchbishopAníbal Muñoz Duque and Bishop Baltasar Álvarez Restrepo serving asco-consecrators. Castrillón Hoyos succeeded Alvarez Restrepo asBishop of Pereira on 1 July 1976.
While Bishop of Pereira, Castrillón Hoyos was reported to have walked the streets at night to help feed abandoned children.[1] While many Latin American bishops refused to accept contributions from suspected drug lords, Castrillón Hoyos accepted donations for his diocesan charities, arguing that by accepting the funds, they would be diverted from funding crime and instead used to help the poor. He said that when accepting such donations, he had warned the donors personally that their donations "would not save their souls".[1] Castrillón Hoyos once disguised himself as a milkman to gain access to the home of drug lordPablo Escobar, and after revealing himself, the bishop persuaded Escobar toconfess his sins.[1][2] Castrillón Hoyos also served as Secretary General (1983–1987) and President (1987–1991) of theLatin American Episcopal Conference, where he opposedliberation theology, which many of his colleagues supported.
Castrillón Hoyos was made Archbishop ofBucaramanga on 16 December 1991. He remained in that post until 15 June 1996, when he becamePro-Prefect of theCongregation for the Clergy in theRoman Curia.
| Styles of Darío Castrillón Hoyos | |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Bucaramanga (Emeritus) |
John Paul II created himCardinal-Deacon ofSS. Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano in theconsistory of 21 February 1998. Two days later, on 23 February, Castrillón Hoyos was given the title Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy. On 26 October of that same year he served as papal envoy to the signing of the peace accord betweenPeru andEcuador to settletheir border dispute.
On 14 April 2000, he replacedAngelo Felici as President of thePontifical CommissionEcclesia Dei, the office that handles theHoly See's relations withtraditionalist groups such as theSociety of St. Pius X.
Castrillón was appointed Grand Prior of theSacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George byInfante Carlos, Duke of Calabria on 27 February 2004.[citation needed]
Following the death of John Paul II, Castrillón participated in the2005 papal conclave and was himself consideredpapabile, a possible successor to the papacy.Pope Benedict XVI confirmed him as Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy and President of the Pontifical CommissionEcclesia Dei.
On 31 October 2006, Castrillón resigned as head of the Congregation for the Clergy. On 13 September 2007 Castrillón served as a spokesman for Pope Benedict'smotu proprio,Summorum Pontificum.[3]
On 23 February 2007, Castrillón becameProtodeacon, the senior Cardinal-Deacon, which he remained until 1 March 2008, when he was elevated toCardinal-Priest.
Castrillón retired on 8 July 2009. On the same day, Pope Benedict issued the documentEcclesiae Unitatem, which attached thePontifical CommissionEcclesia Dei to theCongregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, making that Congregation's prefect the president of the Commissionex officio.[4]
In January 2009, while Castrillón still headed the Pontifical Commission, Pope Benedict lifted the excommunications several bishops of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), includingRichard Williamson, who was later identified a Holocaust denier. In September BishopAnders Arborelius of Stockholm alleged that the Holy See had prior knowledge of Williamson's extreme views, and his view was confirmed by the papal nuncio to Sweden Archbishop Emil Paul Tscherrig who said he had warned the Vatican. Castrillón said that it was a "calumny" to suggest he had been aware of Williamson's views. He said that if anyone in the Vatican should have known about the matter, it was CardinalGiovanni Battista Re, Prefect of the Congregation of Bishops, who had responsibility for overseeing Williamson.[5][6][7]
In 2002, Castrillón expressed his disapproval of thezero-tolerance policy of the U.S. bishops with respect tocases of sexual abuse. He said the bishops ignored such "fundamental principles of the Church" as forgiveness and conversion.[8]
In 2001, Castrillón congratulated French bishopPierre Pican, Bishop of Bayeux, France, for not notifying the police about a priest who had engaged insexual abuse of minors. The priest was later sentenced to 18 years in jail. Bishop Pican himself received a suspended three-month jail sentence for not denouncing the priest.[9] In the letter Castrillón described the relationship between a bishop and his priests as "not professional but a sacramental relationship which forges very special bonds of spiritual paternity" and continued "The bishop has other means of acting ... but a bishop cannot be required to make the denunciation himself. In all civilised legal systems it is acknowledged that close relations have the possibility of not testifying against a direct relative."[10] When Castrillón's letter to Pican became public in 2010, Vatican spokesmanFederico Lombardi said it showed how important it was to centralize handling of Catholic sex abuse cases by clerics under the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith."[11]
In 1997, Castrillón and the bishops of Ireland were at odds over the proper treatment of priests accused of sexual abuse. Castrillón expressed reservations about proposals discussed by the bishops.[12] While indicating that his Congregation was still studying the question, Castrillón wrote that some of the Irish bishops' proposals "appear contrary to canonical discipline", which could lead to actions being overturned if an appeal were made to a higher level. Castrillón mentioned the proposed policy of mandatory reporting to the civil authorities.[12] According to a 2011RTÉ documentary, Castrillón told the Irish bishops in 1999 to be "fathers to your priests, not policemen". The documentary's depiction of resistance the Irish bishops experienced from Castrillón put them in a more favorable light at a time when they, and especially ArchbishopDesmond Connell, were the target of savage criticism.[13]
Castrillón's Congregation for Clergy and theCongregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, then headed by CardinalJoseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, were also at odds. In 2001, Ratzinger persuadedPope John Paul II to make it mandatory to report all complaints of clerical sexual abuse to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.[14]
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| Catholic Church titles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Saturnino Rubio y Montiél | Titular Bishop of Villa regis 2 June 1971 – 1 July 1976 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by Baltasar Alvarez Restrepo | Bishop of Pereira 1 July 1976 – 16 December 1992 | Succeeded by Fabio Suescún Mutis |
| Preceded by | General Secretary of the Latin American Episcopal Conference 1983–1987 | Succeeded by |
| President of the Latin American Episcopal Conference 1987–1991 | Succeeded by | |
| Preceded by | Archbishop of Bucaramanga 16 December 1992 – 15 June 1996 | Succeeded by Víctor Manuel López Forero |
| Preceded by | Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy 15 June 1996 – 31 October 2006 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Cardinal-Deacon of Santissimo Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano 21 February 1998 – 1 March 2008 | Himself as Cardinal-Priest |
| Position created | President of the International Council for Catechesis 23 February 1998 – 31 October 2006 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | President of the Pontifical CommissionEcclesia Dei 14 April 2000 – 8 July 2009 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Cardinal Protodeacon 23 February 2007 – 1 March 2008 | Succeeded by |
| Himself as Cardinal-Deacon | Cardinal-Priest 'pro hac vice' of Santissimo Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano 1 March 2008 – 18 May 2018 | Succeeded by |
