Roberto Tucci

Roberto Tucci, SJ (19 April 1921 – 14 April 2015) was an Italian Catholic theologian, journalist, and Jesuit priest. He played an important role at the Second Vatican Council and organized foreign trips taken by Pope John Paul II. He was made a cardinal in 2001, and continued to prefer being addressed as "Padre Tucci".

Biography Roberto Tucci was born in Naples, Italy, on 19 April 1921 He received his baptism in the Anglican Church on 1 October 1936. He earned a licentiate in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of Louvain, where the issues that would be the subject of the Second Vatican Council were already being discussed.

He was made cardinal deacon of Sant'Ignazio di Loyola a Campo Marzio in the consistory of 21 February 2001. The pope granted him a dispensation from the rule that all cardinals be ordained bishops. For two months, until his 80th birthday, he was eligible to participate in a papal conclave though not a bishop.

On 21 February 2011, he opted for the order of cardinal priest, and his diaconal church was elevated to the rank of titular church.

In 2012, his early diaries were published as Giovanni XXIII e la preparazione del Concilio Vaticano II nei diari ineditii del direttore della «Civiltà cattolica» padre Roberto Tucci (John XXIII and the preparation of the Second Vatican Council, the unpublished diaries of the director of "Civiltà Cattolica" Father Roberto Tucci). His account of editorial battles between different generations of Jesuits at his magazine mirrors that of the Council fathers. He was awarded an honorary doctor of law degree by the University of Notre Dame in 1966.