The Pope has announced that on November
20 will create 24 new cardinals, whom, he said, "have the task of
helping the Successor of Peter in accomplishing his mission as the
perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity of faith and
communion in the Church".
They are Mgr. Angelo Amato (Italy), Prefect of
the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Mgr. Mauro Piacenza (Italy),
Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy,
Mgr. Gianfranco Ravasi
(Italy), President of the Pontifical Council for Culture,
Mgr. Fortunato
Baldelli (Italy), major penitentiary,
Mgr. Velasio De Paolis (Italy),
President of the Prefecture for Economic Affairs of the Holy See,
Mgr.
Raymond Leo Burke (USA), Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura,
Mgr. Kurt
Koch (Switzerland), President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting
Christian Unity,
Mgr. Robert Sarah, (Guinea Conakry), President of Cor
Unum, Mgr.
Paolo Sardi (Italy), pro-Patron of the Order of Malta
Mgr.
Francesco Monterisi (Italy), archpriest of the basilica of St. Paul.
Among the bishops at the head of diocese who will be created
cardinals.
Paolo Romeo (Italy), archbishop of Palermo,
Mgr. Reinhard
Marx (Germany), archbishop of Munich and Freising,
Mgr. Kazimierz Nycz
(Poland), archbishop of Warsaw,
Mgr. Donald W. Wuerl (U.S.), archbishop
of Washington,
Mgr. Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya (DRC), Archbishop of
Kinshasa,
Mgr. Medardo Joseph Mazombwe (Zambia), archbishop emeritus of
Lusaka,
Mgr. Ranjith Patabendige Don (Sri Lanka), Archbishop of Colombo,
Mgr. Raymundo Damasceno Assis (Brazil), archbishop of Aparecida,
Mgr.
Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga (Ecuador), archbishop emeritus of Quito, and
the patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts (Egypt), Antonio Naguib.
The consistory will also see four cardinals over eighty created and
hence non-electors in conclave.
They are Spanish Mgr. José Manuel Estepa
Llaurens, Military Ordinary emeritus archbishop, Italian Mgr. Elio
Sgreccia, former president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Italian
Mgr. Domenico Bartolucci, former master of the Sistine Chapel and German
Mgr. Walter Brandmüller, former president of the Pontifical Committee
of Historical Sciences.
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