Even more than fifteen years after his withdrawal from his responsibilities in the Church, people still spoke of him in Rome with a form of admiration mixed with fear. Cardinal Camillo Ruini died on Tuesday June 16 in Rome, at the age of 95. Former strong man of the Catholic Church in Italy, installed vicar general of Rome by John Paul II in 1991, he reigned supreme over the pope’s diocese for more than seventeen years, and over the Episcopal Conference for sixteen years, profoundly transforming the face of the Church in the Peninsula.
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