Posted on 09/30/2023 5:56:07 AM PDT by FarCenter
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Throughout his papacy, Francis has sought to create a more inclusive, universal Church, looking past Europe to clergy in Africa, Asia and Latin America to fill the Church's highest ranks.
With his latest roster of cardinals, Francis has again looked to the world's "peripheries" -- where Catholicism is growing -- while breaking with the practice of promoting archbishops of large, powerful dioceses.
"He is looking for cardinals who correspond to the times. These are people who have all taken a step away from the Church of the past, who positively ensure a break," an informed observer of the Holy See who asked to remain nameless told AFP ahead of the ceremony.
The array of cardinals represent "a richness and a variety of experience, and that's what the Church is all about," the Archbishop of Cape Town, Stephen Brislin, told AFP Thursday before his elevation to cardinal.
Of the 21 new cardinals, 18 will be eligible to elect Francis' successor. Of the 21 new cardinals, 18 will be eligible to elect Francis' successor. © Tiziana FABI / AFP "The Church encompasses all people, not just a certain group of people," he said.
There are three new cardinals from South America, including two Argentinians, and three from Africa, with the promotion of the archbishops of Juba in South Sudan, Tabora in Tanzania, and Cape Town's Brislin.
Asia is represented by the Bishop of Penang in Malaysia and the Bishop of Hong Kong, Stephen Chow, who is seen as playing a key role in seeking to improve tense relations between the Vatican and Beijing.
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Watch out boys and girls.
Vatican City, Jul 9, 2023 / 05:15 am
Pope Francis said on Sunday that he will create 21 new cardinals, including the Vatican’s recently appointed doctrinal chief Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández, at a consistory on Sept. 30.
The 86-year-old pope made the announcement from a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square after reciting the Angelus prayer on July 9.
Archbishop Robert Francis Prevost, prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops (United States)
Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (Argentina)
Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the U.S. (France)
Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem (Italy)
Archbishop Emil Paul Tscherrig, apostolic nuncio to Italy (Switzerland)
Bishop Stephen Chow Sau-yan, SJ, bishop of Hong Kong (China)
Archbishop José Cobo Cano, archbishop of Madrid (Spain)
Archbishop Stephen Brislin, archbishop of Cape Town (South Africa)
Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, prefect of the Dicastery for the Oriental Churches (Italy)
Archbishop Ángel Sixto Rossi, archbishop of Córdoba (Argentina)
Archbishop Luis Rueda Aparicio, archbishop of Bogotá (Colombia)
Archbishop Grzegorz Ryś, archbishop of Lodz (Poland)
Archbishop Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla, archbishop of Juba (South Sudan)
Archbishop Protase Rugambwa, coadjutor archbishop of Tabora (Tanzania)Bishop Sebastian Francis, bishop of Penang (Malaysia)
Bishop François-Xavier Bustillo, bishop of Ajaccio (France)
Bishop Américo Emanuel Alves Aguiar, auxiliary bishop of Lisbon (Portugal)
Father Ángel Fernández Artime, rector major of the Salesian Order (Spain)
hbishop Agostino Marchetto, apostolic nuncio (Italy
“a richness and a variety of experience, and that’s what the Church is all about,” the Archbishop of Cape Town, Stephen Brislin, told AFP Thursday
Is that really “what the Church is all about?”
cardinals who correspond to the times.
All that needs to be said.
Frankie is a real nutjob.
Asia, Africa and Latin America should have cardinals. With rapid travel and communication it would be silly not to have them.
You’ll likely find more orthodoxy among bishops from.those lands than you will in North America and Europe. That doesn’t mean Francis will elevate the orthodox of course.
Hey good. Maybe the next Pope will be a gay or tranny. /s
Things like this happen when you have a dictator-run church and a woke priest manuvers himself into office. What he
says goes.
Except that quasi-democratic churches, like the Episcopalians, have already gone there. And very-democratic groups, like the successors of the Puritans in New England (primarily the UCC), went there decades ago.
Thst should cement in the “fundamental transformation” of the church that he started.
Another huge conservative institution taken over by the left.
Gramsci’s plan is working like a dream.
Diversity is the recognition of differences, not similarities. God already knew them. And I don’t think God cares who is a follower of peace and worship by any differences. Just by similarities of love and worship. But then again God is who God is and not trying to be one like our earth bound religious crusading egotists.
wy69
Only one archbishop from Africa (south africa). Most bishops from Africa are conservative i think, so no surprise that he did not draw from that well.
Methodists also. Except when they don’t like how the vote goes (such as being outvoted by the African methodists) they do what they want anyway.
More bad news for the leftist church. Traditionalists he had it right all along.
Sort of like the president stacking the Supreme Court.
““a richness and a variety of experience, and that’s what the Church is all about,” the Archbishop of Cape Town, Stephen Brislin, told AFP Thursday
Is that really “what the Church is all about?”
Somehow, I do not believe that this is what JESUS CHRIST wanted when he was not only here on earth; but also, when he assented back to heaven to sit at his FATHER’S RIGHT HAND.
The church is trying to be popular in a world being run by Satan. It will fail, and worst of all, it will fail G-d and His word.
These are people who have all taken a step away from the Church of the past,
So not Catholics.
What an abomination this pope is and his so called reforms are.
He appointed Left Wing Fags
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