Pope Francis, Saturday, announced a consistory for the creation of new cardinals from around the world to be held at the Vatican on 30 September 2023. Cardinal Electors under 80 1 – Archbishop Robert Prevost, American, Vatican official, head of the Dicastery for Bishops 2 – Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, Italian, Vatican official, head of the Read more
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Mongolia cardinal symbol of mission Church
Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
Catholic missionaries in Mongolia have expressed their joy over the appointment of Italian Bishop Giorgio Marengo as a new cardinal. “I am surprised and amazed by an unexpected moment of grace, Cardinal-elect Marengo said. “I believe that the pope’s gesture was a missionary gesture, to express attention and care to a small community and to Read more
Pope sends message to US bishops
Monday, May 30th, 2022
Pope Francis named 21 new cardinals on Sunday and in doing so sent a message to some US bishops. The only US bishop named is Robert W McElroy (68), bishop of San Diego, California, who is considered one of Francis’s ideological allies. Known often to spar with more conservative US bishops, McElroy is outspoken about Read more
Pope advises new cardinals: No boring speeches
Monday, October 7th, 2019
Pope Francis’s advice to the Church’s 13 new cardinals is straightforward: “Proclaim the true word, not boring speeches no one understands.” Francis made the comments in his homily at the consistory Mass at St Peter’s Basilica last Saturday. All 13 of the new cardinals share Francis’s pastoral concerns at a time when conservatives within the Read more
Pope names 13 new cardinals
Monday, September 2nd, 2019
Pope Francis has named 13 new cardinals, including 10 who will be eligible to vote in a future conclave. The cardinals-elect will be installed at next month’s consistory. Many of those the pope named have reputations as progressives on social issues such as immigration and share his support of dialogue with non-Christians. Several come from Read more
Port Moresby welcomes back its new cardinal
Tuesday, December 13th, 2016
Cardinal Sir John Ribat made his first public appearance, after being made a cardinal, on Sunday November 27 at the Jack Pidik Park, during the 50th anniversary ceremonies of the Port Moresby Catholic Archdiocese. The number attending the celebration was variously reported to be to 1000 and 20,000 and people from other mainline churches. Government Read more
Ribat not sharing communion with Protestants painful
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016
Sir John Ribat, the newly appointed cardinal from Papua New Guinea says both Catholics and Protestants have to live with they pain they have because they cannot share Holy Communion during Mass. “But that for the moment this is what they all have to live with as they push towards full Christian Unity.” he added Read more
Fr Ernest Simoni: the only non-bishop among new cardinals
Friday, October 14th, 2016
“I am a poor priest and my only richness is Christ,” are the words that his Italian biographer, Mimmo Muolo, retains of Cardinal-designate Ernest Simoni, hero of the Gospel under the Albanian Communist regimes, who endured condemnation to death and was a slave labourer for almost 30 years. Father Ernest Simoni is the only non-bishop on Read more
Papua New Guineans of all denominations proud of John Ribat
Friday, October 14th, 2016
“Ours is a deeply Christian nation, and regardless of denomination, all Papua New Guinean Christians can be proud of our first Cardinal, Sir John Ribat,” said Papua New Guinea’s prime minister Peter O’Neill. O’Neill said the elevation of Ribat to Cardinal on November 19 will be a time of national pride. “We congratulate Sir John Read more
Pope names 17 New cardinals – mainly from far and away
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
Pope Francis has named 17 new Cardinals. 13 of them be under 80 years and so eligible to vote in a conclave. Eleven come from places that have never had a cardinal. While historically cardinals have come from certain larger cities known for their Catholic populations or global importance Pope Francis has chosen men from places long Read more