José Cardoso Sobrinho OCarm (born 30 June 1933, in Caruaru) is the Archbishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco.
Sobrinho is the successor of Hélder Câmara and had been tasked with undoing the influence of liberation theology in that region of Brazil.
[2]President Lula da Silva and Health Minister José Gomes Temporão decried his statement.
The National Conference of Bishops of Brazil disowned it, saying that the mother was certainly not excommunicated and there was insufficient evidence to show that any member of the medical team was.
The statement was also criticized in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano by the President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Cardinal Rino Fisichella.