{"id":3926,"date":"2010-01-19T19:11:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T19:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/01\/handicapping-the-next-class-of-cardinals.html"},"modified":"2010-01-19T19:11:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T19:11:35","slug":"handicapping-the-next-class-of-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/01\/handicapping-the-next-class-of-cardinals.html","title":{"rendered":"Handicapping the next class of cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Christmas behind us, and Lent still weeks away, Vatican observers have too much time on their hands. So, naturally, they’re bird-watching. <\/p>\n

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 Specifically, they’re keeping an eye out for cardinals.<\/p>\n

From the Washington Times:<\/a> <\/p>\n

Although the Vatican’s anticipated announcement naming a new contingent of U.S. archbishops to the College of Cardinals likely is months away, observers are already placing their bets on which men will get the coveted red hat.<\/p>\n

The lingo of horse racing, with words like “handicapping” and “top runners,” is being applied to two men: Washington Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl and Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, the Vatican’s highest court.<\/p>\n

Other than the papal throne, the cardinalate is the highest position in the Catholic Church; it is this group of 120 men younger than 80 that elects a new pope.<\/p>\n

Cardinals receive the red galero — the distinctive wide-brimmed hat for this office — in a consistory, the gathering in Rome specifically for the purpose of naming these new princes of the Catholic Church. Consistories typically are held every three years on a major Catholic holiday, which is why Vatican watchers are scouring the 2010 calendar for prospective dates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check the link<\/a> to see who else is on the list — and note that one of the papal prognosticators is the esteemed Triple D (Deacon Doctor Ditewig). <\/a><\/p>\n

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\nPersonally, I’m surprised that no one ever mentions Charles Chaput. <\/a><\/div>\n
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