{"id":240,"date":"2007-10-17T07:22:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T07:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/10\/got-your-new-cardinals.html"},"modified":"2007-10-17T07:22:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T07:22:48","slug":"got-your-new-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/10\/got-your-new-cardinals.html","title":{"rendered":"Got your new cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Consistory, as widely assumed, to be on November 24:<\/a>
\nFollowing the November 24 concistory, the College of Cardinals will number 202 members of whom 121, under the age of 80, will be electors.
\nGiven below is a list of the new cardinal electors:
\n– Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
\n– Archbishop John Patrick Foley, pro-grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
\n– Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and of the Governorate of Vatican City State.
\n– Archbishop Paul Josef Cordes, president of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum.”
\n– Archbishop Angelo Comastri, archpriest of the papal basilica of St. Peter’s in the Vatican, vicar general of His Holiness for Vatican City and president of the Fabric of St. Peter’s.
\n– Archbishop Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity.
\n– Archbishop Raffaele Farina S.D.B., archivist and librarian of Holy Roman Church.
\n– Archbishop Agustin Garcia-Gasco Vicente of Valencia, Spain.
\n– Archbishop Sean Baptist Brady of Armagh, Ireland.
\n– Archbishop Lluis Martinez Sistach of Barcelona, Spain.
\n– Archbishop Andre Vingt-Trois of Paris, France.
\n– Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco of Genoa, Italy.
\n– Archbishop Theodore-Adrien Sarr of Dakar, Senegal.
\n– Archbishop Oswald Gracias of Bombay, India.
\n– Archbishop Francisco Robles Ortega of Monterrey, Mexico.
\n– Archbishop Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, U.S.A.
\n– Archbishop Odilio Pedro Scherer of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
\n– Archbishop John Njue of Nairobi, Kenya.
\nHaving pronounced the names of the new cardinal electors, the Pope then indicated that he had also decided to elevate to the dignity of cardinal “three venerable prelates and two worthy priests,” all over the age of 80 and hence non-electors, for their “commitment and service to the Church.” Their names are:
\n– His Beatitude Emmanuel III Delly, patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Iraq.
\n– Archbishop Giovanni Coppa, apostolic nuncio.
\n– Archbishop Estanislao Esteban Karlic, emeritus of Parana, Argentina.
\n– Fr. Urbano Navarrete S.J., former rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University.
\n– Fr. Umberto Betti O.F.M., former rector of the Pontifical Lateran University.
\nJohn Allen’s insta-analysis:<\/a><\/p>\n

Pope Benedict XVI announced the creation of 23 new cardinals today, including 2 Americans. The crop of new Princes of the Church includes 18 electors, meaning cardinals under the age of 80 and therefore eligible to vote for the next pope.
\nOne of those Americans, longtime Vatican veteran John Foley, was widely tipped for the honor, but the other, Archbishop Daniel Nicholas DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, was a surprise. Most experts believed the honor would go instead to Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C.
\nDiNardo, born in Steubenville, Ohio, and a priest of the Pittsburgh diocese, is also a veteran of the Roman scene, having served in the Congregation for Bishops from 1984 until 1990. He worked there for a year under the future Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, who at the time was the Secretary of the Congregation for Bishops.
\nAside from DiNardo\u2019s personal biography, the red hat is also considered a signal of the shifting Catholic population in the United States, away from its traditional center on the East Coast toward the Southwest.
\nThe other major surprise is that the new red hat in Ireland went to Archbishop Se\u00e1n B. Brady of Armagh, instead of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin.
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\nBenedict XVI also announced today that he had intended to name the oldest Polish bishop, Ignacy Ludwik Jez, as an \u201chonorary\u201d cardinal over the age of 80. Jez, who was 93, had spent three years in the Dachau concentration camp. Yesterday, however, Jez collapsed in Rome during a pilgrimage and died in an ambulance en route to the Gemelli Hospital.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Allen’s later analysis:<\/a><\/p>\n

So, what statements did Pope Benedict XVI make this morning by naming 23 new cardinals, including 18 under the age of 80 and hence eligible to vote for the next pope?
\nAt least seven come to mind:
\n\u2022 He recognized the shifting center of the Catholic population in the United States from the East Coast to the Southwest;
\n\u2022 He signaled the importance of the American church by giving the country two new cardinals, although the U.S. is already over-represented in the College of Cardinals relative to its Catholic population;
\n\u2022 He did not redistribute cardinals to the global South, where two-thirds of Catholics now live, but instead slightly bolstered the over-representation of Europeans;
\n\u2022 He kept the percentage of Vatican officials among electors roughly the same at 25 percent;
\n\u2022 He indicated his sympathy for Iraq by naming the Chaldean patriarch a cardinal;
\n\u2022 He confirmed his concern for the intellectual life of the church by giving honorary red hats to two former rectors of flagship pontifical universities in Rome;
\n\u2022 He introduced at least two new candidates to become the first pope from the global South: Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India, and John Njue of Nairobi, Kenya.
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\nOne key question church-watchers always ask when a consistory is announced is whether any of the new porporati<\/em>, or \u201cpurpled ones,\u201d as the Italians say, also stand out as papabili<\/em>, or candidates to be the next pope.
\nWhile none stands out as an obvious front-runner, at least two new cardinals from the global South could draw attention when the time comes: Gracias, 62, of Mumbai, India; and Njue, 63, of Nairobi.
\nGracias has won high marks in India for astutely navigating between avant garde elements in the local church pressing for greater inculturation and a more positive theological approach to non-Christian religions, and traditionalists in Rome made uncomfortable by both propositions. Gracias was the elected president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India prior to his appointment to Mumbai, reflecting the confidence of his brother bishops.
\nNjue, meanwhile, has a reputation as a voice of conscience. He denounced the Kenyan government\u2019s handling of the investigation that followed the murder of American missionary Fr. John Kaiser in 2000, and in 2002 Njue received death threats for leading a campaign against political corruption. Njue was elected by his fellow bishops in Kenya to three terms as chair of the national bishops\u2019 conference. Like Gracias, Njue knows his way around Rome, having studied at the Lateran University.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update:<\/u><\/strong>
\nNew Cardinal\u00a0Archbishop Gracias of Mumbai, speaks to AsiaNews:<\/a><\/p>\n

This is an opportunity to \u201cbetter fulfill the Divine Service but also an honour, serving the Universal Church, and assist the Holy Father,\u201d said Mgr Oswald Gracias, archbishop of Mumbai as he talked to AsiaNews<\/em> about his appointment as cardinal which Benedict XVI made public at the end of today\u2019s general audience.
\nReligious values \u201cwill be revitalised because as cardinal I believe I can better stress the importance of evangelical values and virtues which must permeate Catholics\u2019 lives,\u201d the new cardinal said. \u201cI am very hopeful for India and Asia. I hope I can be a better instrument and achieve my goals to the maximum.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>
\nAt a personal level, \u201cI am absolutely surprised,\u201d he said. \u201cThis appointment came unexpectedly and now I feel very humbled by the choice the Holy Father made. I hope I can bring faith from the periphery to the centre of everyone\u2019s life.\u201d<\/span>
\nKnown as a tireless servant of truth, justice, freedom and love, Cardinal Gracias<\/span> is inspired by two important figures of missionary Catholicism: Mother Teresa of Kolkata and Saint Francis Xavier. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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