(CNS) Pope creates 22 new cardinals, including three from US, Canada
Pope Benedict XVI created 22 new cardinals from 13 countries -- including three from the United States and Canada -- placing red hats on their heads and calling them to lives of even greater love and service to the church.
The churchmen who joined the College of Cardinals Feb. 18 included Cardinals Timothy M. Dolan of New York; Edwin F. O'Brien, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem and former archbishop of Baltimore; and Thomas C. Collins of Toronto.
In their first official act in their new role, the new cardinals were asked to join their peers in giving the pope their opinion, in writing, on the canonization of seven new saints, including Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, an American Indian, and Blessed Marianne Cope of Molokai, Hawaii.
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Posted February 19, 2012 at 2:00 pm
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I always have to resist the urge to giggle with a headline like that. I always want to pipe up with, “In a separate service, the Pope also created 14 Blue Jays, 4 robins, and a whooping crane to be names later.”
February 19, 9:45 pm | [comment link]