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Character, not Caricature: Cardinal Sarah Beyond the Labels, by Donald DeMarco  – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Cardinal Robert Sarah (photo: Office of Cardinal Sarah)

By Donald DeMarco, National Catholic Register, February 28, 2026

Donald DeMarco, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow of Human Life International. He is professor emeritus at St. Jerome’s University in Waterloo, Ontario, an adjunct professor at Holy Apostles College in Cromwell, Connecticut, and a regular columnist for St. Austin Review. His latest works, How to Remain Sane in a World That is Going Mad; Poetry that Enters the Mind and Warms the Heart; …

COMMENTARY: A pastor who faced danger in his homeland and later served the Church in Rome, Cardinal Robert Sarah remains above all a man on his knees before God.

The internet, that great distorter of information, tells me that Cardinal Robert Sarah is “a member of the right wing of the Catholic Church.” An outsider might look at this and wonder if the Catholic Church is a hockey team with right and left wings. If it were, Cardinal Sarah would be the center, harboring the hope that his two defensemen and goalie would protect his team against enemy assault.

I recall speaking with a priest, who refused to wear clerical attire, telling me that he is so “left wing” that even when he enters a movie theater he feels obliged to sit on the left. I did not respond at the time. Sometimes silence is the best expression of charity. …

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