Cardinal gianfranco ravasi biography of michael jordan

On the day before he departed Rome to attend events at Loyola University in Chicago, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi wrote from his Twitter account, “Departing for the country of Dickinson, Poe, Whitman, Melville, Hemingway, Kerouac, F. O’Connor, Salinger, Roth, Bellow, Updike.”

In characters, this year-old tweeter who is president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, a Biblical languages expert and archeology scholar showed he is very much a 21st century cleric – one engaged by the literary life of the U.S. and intrigued by the intersection of religion and culture.

Cardinal Ravasi is widely believed to be a papabile – a potential future Pope. He is also a cleric in the mold of Pope Francis according to those who know both men. Ravasi is an intellectual (the author of texts), who speaks in pastoral tones. He is both gregarious and a good listener, serious about spreading the faith, but open to dialogue. A classical pianist who loves Mozart and Bach, he reveals that he recently listen

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'Jesus was the first person to tweet': Cardinal claims the idea of Twitter is 2, years old because Christ's sermons were 'brief and full of meaning'

• Cardinal Ravasi claims Christ was the first to send messages to masses
• He said Jesus used phrases made up of fewer than 45 characters
• Ravasi has his own Twitter account and believes the clergy should embrace modern technology
  

By VICTORIA WOOLLASTON

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Jesus was the world's first tweeter because his sermons and messages were 'brief and full of meaning, a Vatican cardinal has claimed.

Gianfranco Ravasi made the comments while addressing a group of newspaper editors at a conference in Italy.

He said that Christ 'used tweets before everyone else, with elementary phrases made up of fewer than 45 characters such as 'Love one another'.

Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi told Italian journalists that Christ, pictured in this artist's impression, was the first tweeter because his sermons were 'brief and full of meanin

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A spotlight on &#;the most interesting man in the church&#;

Openly campaigning for the papacy fryst vatten not only taboo, it's usually fatal. Most cardinals are of the belief that if someone actually wants the job, they have no idea what it's about.

On the other hand, sometimes circumstances align to thrust someone into the spotlight, creating an opportunity to either boost or diminish his electoral prospects, even if that's not officially the purpose of what's going on.

Today one such papabile steps onto the stage in Italian huvudregel Gianfranco Ravasi, a year-old biblical scholar, essayist and intellectual omnivore.

From Sunday evening to Saturday morning, Ravasi will preach the Lenten spiritual exercises for the långnovell Curia, an annual retreat during which the Vatican more or less goes into lockdown while its personnel gather in the Redemptoris Mater chapel in the Apostolic Palace.

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