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Church in Venezuela

Why Pope Francis sent a Venezuelan cardinal to a Eucharistic congress

A Maduro critic gets a global stage.

Edgar Beltrán
Aug 26, 2024
∙ Paid

Pope Francis appointed this weekend Cardinal Baltazar Porras, emeritus archbishop of Caracas, as the pontifical legate for the International Eucharistic Congress to be celebrated in Quito, Ecuador, between September 8 and 15 of this year.

Cardinal Baltazar Porras, right, with Pope Francis. Credit: ACN via Flickr.

Those kinds of appointments are often perf…

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