“Notice something missing from this list?”
Not really since the U.S. already has a number of cardinals:
- Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, Roman Curia
• Daniel Nicholas Cardinal DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas
• Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, New York
• Francis Eugene Cardinal George, O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois
• James Michael Cardinal Harvey, Archpriest of the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura {Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls Basilica}, Roman Curia Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}, Roman Curia
• William Joseph Cardinal Levada, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Roman Curia
• Roger Michael Cardinal Mahony, Archbishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, California
• Edwin Frederick Cardinal O’Brien, Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, Roman Curia
• Sean Patrick Cardinal O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts
• Justin Francis Cardinal Rigali, Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Donald William Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia
Brazil has only ten cardinals:
http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/bbr8.html
So, we have more cardinals than the mostly Catholic nation of Brazil. Brazil has almost twice as many Catholics as the USA does.
“So, we have more cardinals than the mostly Catholic nation of Brazil. Brazil has almost twice as many Catholics as the USA does.”
Brazil is only one of 19. I don’t begrudge Brazil a cardinal. I point out the lack of a single American being appointed Cardinal by this new Pope. I think it was intentional, and I doubt you can convince me otherwise, in light of what the Pope has said about our capitalist ways in this country.
How many cardinals do Poland and the Philippines have? I understand that they are probably the most Marian societies on Earth.
Focus more on the poor? Good grief! The cradle-to-grave bankrupt Western democracies have done nothing but focus on the poor over the last 100 years.
The real cause of poverty is moral depravity, promiscuous sex, militant feminism, and the collapse and shrinkage of the family. Yet the Pope (and the Baptist leader, for that matter) tell us not to obsess over abortion and gay marriage.