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Sometimes known as the "Cardinal of Controversy" O'Brien often speaks on issues close to his heart with frankness. In 1999, at the European Synod of Bishops, O'Brien answered whom he saw fit as the next Archbishop of Westminster, following the death of Cardinal Basil Hume O.S.B.. Usually bishops handle this type of questions very diplomatically, if at all. O'Brien bluntly named his candidate: Father Timothy Radcliffe, Master General of the Dominican Order (Black Friars). At this Synod, Radcliffe had made an intervention to O'Brien's heart. There is a crisis of authority going in the Church, Radcliffe had said, but the answer cannot be more emphasis on authority. In presence of the Pope, Radcliffe went on: the Church should not only speak about the poor, the divorced people, women who had had an abortion, homosexuals, but also take at heart their experiences, eat their bread, take what they have to offer. 'They'll blame us being associated with the wrong people but we have a good precedent'.
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