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Constable and Arturo Valenzuela, A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet (New York, 1991), p. 241. Hugh O’Shaughnessy, “The Cardinal Who Stood Up to Pinochet,” The Tablet, February 27, 1999.

20. Penny Lernoux, People of God (New York, 1989), p. 149.

21. John L. Allen Jr., Cardinal Ratzinger: The Vatican Enforcer of the Faith (New York, 2000). See chap. 4.

22. David Gibson, The Rule of Benedict: Pope Benedict XVI and His Battle with the Modern World (San Francisco, 2006), p. 195.

23. Paul Collins, The Modern Inquisition: Seven Prominent Catholics and Their Struggles with the Vatican (New York, 2002), p. 27.

24. John L. Allen Jr., “These Paths Lead to Rome,” National Catholic Reporter, June 2, 2000.

25. www.remember-chile.org.uk/declarations/romero.htm. The website was established in 1998 when Pinochet, while in England, was placed under house arrest in response to a warrant from a Spanish judge for him to stand trial for human rights crimes. Cardinal Sodano was widely criticized for his appeal to the British government to release Pinochet; he was acting on a request from Chile’s democratically elected government, which wanted its courts to be the venue for any legal recourse against Pinochet, who had negotiated a senator-for-life status and immunity from prosecution during Chile’s transition to democracy.

26. George Weigel, Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II (New York, 1999), p. 531.

27. Jonathan Kwitny, Man of the Century: The Life and Times of Pope John Paul II (New York: 1997), p. 563.

28. Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi, His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time (New York, 1996), p. 465.

29. Kwitny, Man of the Century, p. 564.

30. Clermont, The Neo-Catholics, p. 77.

31. Achille Silvestrini, “Introduction,” p. xx, in Agostino Casaroli, The Martyrdom of Patience: The Holy See and the Communist Countries (1963–89), trans. Fr. Marco Bagnarol IMC (Toronto, 2007); Jason Berry, “Change Challenges the Church,” Chicago Tribune Perspective, April 10, 2005.

32. Agostino Bono, “Cardinal-designate Sodano Has 3 Decades of Diplomatic Experience,” Catholic News Service, January 1991.

33. Giovanni Avena, interview with the author, Rome, July 15, 2009.

34. Father Kenneth J. Doyle, “Vatican to Pay $250 Million in Ambrosiano Case, Says Cardinal Krol,” Catholic News Service, March 5, 1984; Sandro Magister, “The Pope’s Banker Speaks: ‘Here’s How I Saved the IOR,’ ” L’Espresso, June 18, 2004, www.chiesa.espressonline.it.

35. Kwitny, Man of the Century, p. 654.

36. Weigel, Witness to Hope, p. 749.

37. Magister, “The Pope’s Banker Speaks.” Sodano’s quote is from Alan Cowell, “Challenge to the Faithful,” New York Times Magazine, December 27, 1992.

38. Copies of the document in Latin and translation provided by Peter Borré.

39. Michael Paulson, “Church Offers Guidance on Closings,” Boston Globe, May 28, 2004.

40. Stephen Kurkjian, “Parishes’ Proceeds to Benefit Diocese,” Boston Globe, February 2, 2004.

41. Rev. Stephen S. Josoma and Rev. John A. Dooher, pastors, Letter on Reconfiguration Process from Saint Mary Parish and Saint Susanna Parish to Monsignor Cornelius V. McRae, VF, March 8, 2004.

42. Rev. Bill Williams, pastor, Letters to St. Mary’s Parish Members, April 17, 2007, and November 18, 2007.

43. Marco R. della Cava, “Santa Fe Archdiocese Learned Lessons That Could Help Others,” USA Today, March 26, 2002; Demetria Martinez, “Diocese Sells Retreat in Sex Abuse Bailout,” National Catholic Reporter, September 30, 1994.

44. Deposition of Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan, 134th Judicial District Court, Dallas County, Texas, case no. 93-05258-G, John Doe I et al. v. Reverend Rudolph Kos et al., April 14, 1994, p. 63.

45. Brooks Egerton of the Dallas Morning News chronicled the Kos saga, followed by an extensive series in 2002 on international dimensions of the clergy abuse crisis. See also Jason Berry and Gerald Renner, Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II (New York, 2004), pp. 235–41.

46. Joe Feuerherd, “Diocesan Bankruptcies Raise Church Ownership Issues,

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