"WASHINGTON — Cardinal John Foley, who served as the Vatican's communications chief for more than two decades, has died in Pennsylvania at the age of 76, the archdiocese of Philadelphia said Monday.
It gave no cause for the cardinal's death which happened Sunday, but Foley was suffering from leukemia.
Foley provided commentary for American television viewers of the Vatican's Christmas Midnight Mass for 25 years, the last time being in 2009.
In 1984, the late pope John Paul II named Foley an archbishop and appointed him chief of the Vatican's news operations as president of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications. Foley served in the post until 2007."
It gave no cause for the cardinal's death which happened Sunday, but Foley was suffering from leukemia.
Foley provided commentary for American television viewers of the Vatican's Christmas Midnight Mass for 25 years, the last time being in 2009.
In 1984, the late pope John Paul II named Foley an archbishop and appointed him chief of the Vatican's news operations as president of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications. Foley served in the post until 2007."
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