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The funeral for Cardinal Raffaele Martino will be on 31 October in St. Peter's Basilica. He served as Permanent Observer at the United Nations in New York for sixteen years and later headed the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
Born in Salerno, Italy, on 23 November 1932, he was ordained a priest on 20 June 1957 and received his degree in Canon Law. He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1962 and worked in the Apostolic Nunciatures of Nicaragua, the Philippines, Lebanon, Canada and Brazil. Between 1970 and 1975 he headed the Section for International Organisations in the Secretariat of State. In 1986 he was appointed Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in New York.
John Paul II created him a cardinal in the Consistory of 21 October 2003. On 25 October 2004, the Dicastery he led published the long-awaited Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church. In March 2005 the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, in collaboration with several Catholic university institutions, promoted an International Congress in the Vatican to mark the 40th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council's Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes.
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