Cardinal Estanislao Karlic (99), one of the editors of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, was submitted, on the afternoon of May 13 to a “small surgical intervention to place a pacemaker,” said the Archbishopric of Paraná through his social networks.
In a note published on his social networks, the archbishopric said that the Argentine purple, Archbishop Emeritus of Paraná “is evolving very well in his clinical picture.”
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“It has been withdrawn from intensive therapy and is currently in a common room, where its recovery will continue,” adds the statement, specifying that “visits are not allowed.”
“The prayer of all those who are accompanying the cardinal at this time is appreciated,” he concludes.
Cardinal Karlic had been taken to Sanatorio La Entre Rican on May 10, after suffering cardiac decompensation.
Who is Cardinal Karlic?
Cardinal Estanislao Esteban Karlic is the second most old cardinal in the world. The oldest is Archbishop Angelo Acerbi, also 99 years old, but born in 1925.
Cardinal Karlic was born in Oliva, the town of the Argentine province of Córdoba, on February 7, 1926. Being a member of a family of Croatian immigrants, the purple is a doctor in theology from the Gregorian University of Rome, was Archbishop of Paraná, president of the Argentine Episcopal Conference during two mandates, and also One of the editors of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
He worked as a professor of Theology and Superior of Philosophy at the Major Seminary of Córdoba, and received the academic degree of Doctor Honoris Causa at the Catholic University of Santa Fe.
In an interview with ACI Press in 2024, when he turned 98, the Cardinal encouraged everyone to “look for God, to know that here and now he is coming, that he wants to arrive, and in the here and now he wants to take care of us, asking us for integers. Here and now he is calling us towards eternity.”
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.