FRANCISCO S. TATAD
THE highest praise I ever heard of a priest paid by another priest was what the late Jose Cardinal Sanchez, former Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Clergy and President of the Pontifical Commission for the Preservation of Artistic and Historical Patrimony of the Church—the first and only Filipino so far to have headed a major dicastery in the Roman Curia—said of Ricardo Cardinal Vidal, on the eve of the April 18, 2005 conclave that elected Pope (now Emeritus) Benedict XVI as successor to St. John Paul II.