Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.Cardinal Camillo Ruini kneels during Mass for the Feast of the Epiphany in St. Peter’s Basilica.
Cardinal Ruini, who was Rome’s vicar general from 1991 to 2008, and president of the Italian bishops’ conference for 16 years, said that “people certainly can be blessed, but because they are converted, not because they are confirmed in their sin.”