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֎Philippe Xavier Christian Ignace Marie Cardinal BARBARIN (elevated 2003)
Popeular History: A Catholic History of the World
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6 months ago
֎Philippe Xavier Christian Ignace Marie Cardinal BARBARIN (elevated 2003)
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Vatican bio of Cardinal Philippe BARBARIN:
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_barbarin_p.html
Philippe BARBARIN on FIU's Cardinals Database (by Salvador Miranda):
https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios2003.htm#Barbarin
Cardinal Philippe BARBARIN on Gcatholic.org:
https://gcatholic.org/p/17
Cardinal Philippe BARBARIN on Catholic-Hierarchy.org:
https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbarbarin.html
Archdiocese of Lyon on Gcatholic.org:
https://gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/lyon0.htm?tab=info
Archdiocese of Lyon on Catholic-Hierarchy.org:
https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dlyon.htm
The Catholic Encyclopedia, “Primate” (via newadvent.org):
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12423b.htm
Brittanca.com, “Lyon”:
https://www.britannica.com/place/Lyon-France
Zenit.org coverage of Cardinal Barbarin's 2013 heart attack:
https://zenit.org/2013/07/24/cardinal-philippe-barbarin-suffers-heart-attack/
2020 The Guardian reporting on the Preynat case:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/defrocked-french-priest-jailed-for-abusing-scouts-over-20-year-period
2019 France24 coverage of Cardinal Barbarin and the Preynat scandal as it stood at the time:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20190319-pope-refuses-french-cardinal-barbarins-resignation-over-abuse-cover-scandal
2020 La Croix interview with the early-retiring Cardinal:
https://international.la-croix.com/news/religion/cardinal-philippe-barbarin-begins-busy-early-retirement/12647
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TRANSCRIPT
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Today we're discussing another current Cardinal of the Catholic Church, one of the 120 or so people who will choose the next Pope when the time comes.
One of eleven children, Philippe Xavier Christian Ignace Marie Barbarin was born on October 17, 1950 in Rabat, Morocco, located right in the middle of the second big inward curve if you're following the coast coming up from south. Though Morocco is over 99% Muslim, Rabat has popped up on our radar before, thanks to recent Cardinal López Romero winding up as Archbishop of Rabat after his continent hopping journeys. Cardinal Barbarin hasn’t gotten credit as Morocco's first Cardinal, when you Google that up you get lots of Lopez Romero. Granted, Philippe Barbarin wasn't born in the modern nation of Morocco, rather he was born in French Morocco, like Cardinal Mamberti, if you remember that. And it's fair to not count colonizers who never really lived the same lives as the locals. I don't know for sure that Philippe actually fits that description, but that's also not the only reason folks might not be in a rush to credit him as the first Moroccan Cardinal… but I'm getting ahead of myself.
After Moroccan independence, Philippe wound up in France, experiencing the joys of military service while also studying a little theology and a lot of philosophy in Paris, getting a licentiate in the former from the Carmes Seminary and a doctorate in the latter from the Sarbonne.
In 1977, Philippe Barbarin was ordained a priest for the young diocese of Créteil, centered on an eponymous suburb southeast of Paris. From 1977 till 1985, he served as Vicar in two parishes: Notre-Dame d'Alfortville and Notre-Dame de Vincennes, Notre-Dame of course being French for “Our Lady”, on the off chance that you got this deep without already