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| Pope Benedict (L) formally appointed the new cardinals on 6 January |
The
biographies were copied from the Italian version of the user-edited online
encyclopedia, word for word in some cases, and without attribution.
One clue
was that many new cardinals were described as being "Catholic".
The Vatican
says it was trying to help journalists and warned them the biographies were
"unofficial".
The names
of the 22 new cardinals from around the world were announced by Pope Benedict
on 6 January.
The similarity
between the profiles of them handed out by the Vatican and their Wikipedia
entries was spotted by the Italian journalist and blogger Sandro Magister.
In the kind
of language not normally used by the Vatican, a Dutch archbishop, William
Jacobus Eijk was described as being "one of the most talked about
religious men in the country".
This was
because of his "strong leaning towards conservatism, especially with
regard to abortion and homosexuality," the biography said.
A Vatican
spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, said his staff had no advance notice of
the names of the new cardinals and had been in a hurry.
Official
biographies are now being put up on the website of the Holy See.
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directly dials God."
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