A most active Cardinal retires (at 91 no less!)

From CWNews:

Jun. 14 (CWNews.com) - Cardinal Kazimierz Swiatek has resigned as Archbishop of Minsk in Belarus, at the age of 91.

A bland Vatican statement on June 14 announced that Cardinal Swiatek had resigned "upon having reached the age limit." But actually the Belarusian prelate was already beyond the ordinary retirement age of 75 when he was appointed by Pope John Paul II to become Archbishop of Minsk in 1991. His resignation came just four months short of his 92nd birthday.

A survivor of brutal Stalinist persecution, Cardinal Swiatek had been by far the oldest cardinal still actively heading an archdiocese. (Six other retired cardinals are older, led by the Dutch Cardinal Johannes Willebrands, who will be 97 in September.) [More...]