Chapters: Honduran Roman Catholic Archbishops, Honduran Roman Catholic Bishops, Honduran Roman Catholics, Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Maria Julia Hernandez, Nicholas D'antonio Salza, List of Roman Catholic Dioceses in Honduras, Elvia Alvarado, Roman Catholicism in Honduras. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, SDB (born December 29, 1942) is a Honduran Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the current Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, President of Caritas Internationalis and was President of the Latin American Episcopal Conference (CELAM) from 1995 to 1999. Rodriguez was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001. He was the Vatican's spokesperson with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank on the issue of Third World debt. He was born in Tegucigalpa in Honduras, the third of the four children of Andres Rodriguez Palacios and Raquel Maradiaga. As a boy, he dreamed of playing the saxophone in a dance band or becoming a pilot. Instead, he entered the religious life, and joined the Salesians on May 3, 1961. He earned doctorates in philosophy from the Institute "Don Rua" in El Salvador, in theology from the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome, and moral theology from the Pontifical Lateran University. From the Austrian University of Innsbruck Rodriguez received a diploma in clinical psychology and psychotherapy. He was ordained a priest on July 28, 1970, by Archbishop Girolam Prigione in Guatemala City. Father Rodriguez was named the bishop's assistant in Tegucigalpa in the same year. He was rector for three years at Guatemala's Francisco Marroquin University from 1975. He then taught chemistry, physics, and music at Salesian colleges in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala over the next fifteen years. During t...http: //booksllc.net/?id=168592