Category: Cardinals

Evangelization: What and When?

by bcadmin | Sep 21, 2022 | Cardinals, China, Dominus Iesus, Evangelization, Germany, News, Russia, The Dispatch, Veritatis Splendor | 0 |

At the “information meeting” of the College of Cardinals this past Aug. 29-30, there was considerable agreement that evangelization is Catholicism’s prime imperative for the 21st century — a consensus understandably gratifying to the author […]

Say what you will, this cardinal’s sheer bravado is breathtaking

by bcadmin | Sep 19, 2022 | Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, Cardinals, lead, News, News Analysis, papal almoner, Papal conclave, Security, Ukraine | 0 |

Call such behavior what you want: Tenacity, the courage of the Gospel, foolhardiness, an adrenaline junkie seeking a fix, whatever. You still have to stand in awe at the sheer bravado of it all.

Pondering the Church’s electoral college one year from now

by bcadmin | Sep 18, 2022 | Brazil, Cardinals, Europe, Haiti, Italy, lead, Mexico, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis | 0 |

Of the 11 cardinals who will lose voting privileges over the next year, all are appointees of either John Paul II or Benedict XVI. Of the 120 cardinals eligible, 82 will have been appointed by Francis, 68.4 percent, above the two-thirds threshold.

Wisdom of centuries: Swedish cardinal says much to learn from church’s past

by bcadmin | Sep 2, 2022 | Cardinal Arborelius, Cardinals, News, Pope Francis, St. Bridget of Sweden, U.S. & World News | 0 |

Centuries later, standing on the rooftop of the convent where Sweden’s first saint spent her final days in Rome, Sweden’s first cardinal reflected on the Aug. 27 consistory that saw the creation of 20 new cardinals of the Catholic Church.

Conservative cardinal calls for conclaves to be limited to Rome-based cardinals

by bcadmin | Aug 31, 2022 | Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, Cardinals, Consistory, lead, News, Papal conclave, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |

German Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, a once influential conservative prelate known to be at odds with several aspects of the Francis papacy, has asked that the right to vote in a conclave be limited to only those residing in Rome.

Pope urges cardinals to imitate ‘ragtag group of disciples’ in evangelization efforts

by bcadmin | Aug 30, 2022 | Cardinals, Curial reform, Evangelization, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |

In a special Mass closing a two-day high-profile meeting of cardinals at the Vatican, Pope Francis told cardinals they should be in constant wonder of God, and at sharing in his commission to spread the Gospel throughout the world.

‘New generation’ of cardinals makes leadership more global, with zeal for evangelization

by bcadmin | Aug 30, 2022 | Cardinals, Consistory, Curial reform, Evangelization, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |

Pope Francis’s new cardinals represent an increasingly global and younger cadre of leaders who do not belong to the western world and thus have other priorities, and who exude zeal to implement the pope’s vision for evangelization.

Newly created Cardinal McElroy celebrates Mass in Rome

by bcadmin | Aug 29, 2022 | Bishop Robert McElroy, Cardinal McElroy, Cardinals, College of Cardinals, Featured, Mass of Thanksgiving, News, Of Gods and Men, San Diego, Tibhirine, U.S. & World News | 0 |

Christian humility implies placing one’s desire to maintain appearances or selfish interests aside and instead putting the well-being of others first, said Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego.

Cardinal says tiny East Timor, in shadow of Muslim giant, is laboratory of tolerance

by bcadmin | Aug 29, 2022 | Asia, Cardinals, Church in Asia, Consistory, Document on Human Fraternity, East Timor, lead, News, Papal travel | 0 |

East Timor’s new and first-ever cardinal has said his small nation, one of the few Catholic majority countries in Asia that is neighbored by the world’s largest Muslim nation, is awaiting a papal visit that was postponed due to the coronavirus.

In consistory’s wake, debunking three persistent myths about cardinals

by bcadmin | Aug 28, 2022 | Cardinals, Consistory, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis | 0 |

Whenever we get a new crop of Princes of the Church, several chronic misconceptions tend to head once more unto the breach.

New Dalit cardinal wants to be ‘missionary of compassion’

by bcadmin | Aug 27, 2022 | Cardinals, Church in Asia, Consistory, Consistory for Creation of Cardinals, Dalits, India, lead, News, Pope Francis | 0 |

Cardinal-elect Anthony Poola of Hyderabad, India’s first cardinal from the traditionally marginalized Dalit community, has said he wants to be a “missionary of compassion” for his people, especially youth and the poor.

Two consistories and plenty of questions in Rome

by bcadmin | Aug 27, 2022 | Cardinals, Consistory, News, Pope Francis, The Dispatch, Vatican | 0 |

All eyes are on Rome and the extraordinary and ordinary consistories of cardinals this weekend – and one gets why – but the doings scheduled to take place in the eternal city on Saturday and […]