{"id":296,"date":"2007-11-22T19:49:16","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T19:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/consistory-101.html"},"modified":"2007-11-22T19:49:16","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T19:49:16","slug":"consistory-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/consistory-101.html","title":{"rendered":"Consistory 101"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, Pope Benedict will preside over a “consistory” for the creation of new Cardinals. The Cardinals – present and designated – will meet with the Pope tomorrow (Friday) to discuss various matters. (see below) The ceremony itself will be on Saturday, followed by a Mass on Sunday (Christ the King), then followed by the “courtesy visits” the public is invited to pay to the new Cardinals, who are scattered for the occasion throughout Vatican City, mostly in the Apostolic Palace, on late Sunday afternoon.
\n\u00a0The new Cardinals are listed here.<\/a> Of special interest to those in the US are the two new Cardinals from this country:
\nArchbishop John Foley,<\/a> originally from Philadelphia, for decades associated most closely with the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.
\nArchbishop Daniel DiNardo,<\/a> originally from Pittsburgh, now Archbishop of Houston.
\n(Much more after the jump)
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\n(Some readers will remember that last spring, my daughter participated in the Catholic Forensic League National competition, which was in Houston. On Saturday night, there was a Mass at which Archbishop DiNardo preached, calling on his own experience of speech and debate in either high school or college -he even still had some of his old index cards he’d used. I think she said he’d used them in Extemp events. She was impressed with him then, and when he was touched for the red hat, her jaw dropped at the thought, “I might have seen the next Pope talk about debate meets!” Long shot, some would say, but you never know!)
\nJohn Allen has a nice piece up about Archbishop Foley:<\/a><\/p>\n

I \u00a0was quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> Nov. 18 Nov. 18 calling Foley “the nicest guy in the Vatican,” and I meant it. Formerly President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Foley is today the Pro-Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher. While each of the 23 new cardinals who will receive the red hat on Saturday no doubt has a story to tell, I’m going to focus here on Foley because Americans who have lived in Rome can’t help thinking of him in some sense as our local pastor.
\nFour qualities in particular, at least for me, stand out.<\/p>\n

  • A Pastor’s Heart:<\/strong> Despite having served for a quarter-century in the Vatican, Foley has always seemed more at home in pastoral settings than in the corridors of ecclesiastical power. Foley is a regular at the Church of Santa Susanna, for example, the American parish in Rome, presiding over confirmations and celebrating Mass on special occasions. (Indeed, Foley is to be at Santa Susanna this Thursday to offer the annual Thanksgiving Mass.) Over the years, legions of people in Rome have stories to tell of times Foley helped them behind the scenes during periods of struggle.<\/li>\n

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