【慈幼通訊社 ─ 2013 年 3 月 4 日意大利羅馬訊】 ─ 特古西加爾巴總主教，慈幼會士奧斯卡．羅德里格斯樞機，數天前扺達羅馬，參與樞機全體會議，並將參與選舉本篤十六世繼任人的閉門會議。上星期六，三月二日，他接受 RAI  2 網絡的 Tg2 電視台一名外地記者 Enzo Romeo 的訪問。以下是一則訪問片段。

樞機，教會首次有榮休教宗，會否使閉門會議的地位更形重要？

這確實是歷史上獨特的事件，然而我認為我們最需要承認的重點，就是本篤十六世不斷為我們祈禱。

你們來自遠方的樞機，是否需要多了解教會過去一年所發生的事，例如教廷泄密事件呢？

我認為這是需要的，因為我們是一個團體，作為兄弟，我們需要多作了解，因為我們分隔各地，忙於本身的事務，或未能取得充分的資訊。

根據你的看法，現在是否適當時候由一位來自歐洲以外的候選人擔任教宗呢？

教宗是否來自歐洲，並非重要因素；新教宗需要面對今日社會的龐大挑戰，更是考慮的重點。比國籍更重要的，是我們需要考慮為回應這些挑戰誰是最合適的入選。

你在上次閉門會議中，取得一些票數。假如你的名字再次響遍聖西斯丁教堂時，會有什麼感覺：滿意、害怕、困擾？

害怕一定會有，因為無人願意負起教宗所承受的重擔。然而與此同時，當上主召叫時，祂必賜予恩寵回應這個召叫。

你是音樂家，而當教宗與樞機團最後會面時，他不是向樞機團表示，他們要成為管絃樂團一般，不同音部融合成單一和諧的音樂嗎？你對此有何分享？

我完全同意，否則教會不能演奏出交響樂，卻製造了雜音。

Interview with Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga

 (ANS - Italy –Rome, 4 March 2012) – Salesian Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, has been in Rome now for some days, taking part in the general congregation of Cardinals, and will then take part in the Conclave to elect the successor to Benedict XVI. Last Saturday, 2 March, he was interviewed by Enzo Romeo, Foreign reporter for Tg2, TV broadcaster for the RAI 2 network. What follows is an excerpt from this interview.

Your Eminence, will the presence of a Pope emeritus for the first time in the Church weigh upon the Conclave?
It is certainly a unique event in history, however I think the most relevant point for us to realise is that Benedict XVI is praying for us.

Do cardinals like yourself coming from afar need to know something more about what happened in the Church last year, for example the Vatileaks case?
I think this would be necessary, because we are a College, and if we are brothers we need to know something which, because of distance and our particular work, we do not have sufficient information about.

According to you, is this the right moment for a Pope from outside Europe?
It doesn't really matter so much whether he is European or not; it depends more on the huge challenges that the new Pope today has to face up to. More than the question of nationality, we need to think who is the most appropriate person for responding to these challenges.

You received some votes in the previous Conclave. How did you feel when your name echoed around the Sistine chapel: satisfied, afraid, confused?
Fearful, for sure, because no human being would want to carry the burden the Pope has to carry. But at the same time, when the Lord calls, He gives the grace to handle that call.

You are a musician and when the Pope met with the cardinals for the last time he told the College of Cardinals that they need to be like an orchestra where divisions fuse into a single harmony? Do you share this idea?
I agree fully, otherwise the Church would not be a symphony but a cacophony.