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Vol. 99, No. 19 Thursday, September 12, 2019
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Seventy-five of the 81 students who graduated from the Fray Pedro de Corpa Catechetical School pose for a photograph with Bishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM
Conv. Each graduate wore a red stQle emblazoned with the school’s name, a tribute to one of the five Spanish Franciscan martyrs who ministered to the native people of
coastal Georgia in the 16th century and are currently being considered for beatification. Photograph by Michael J. Johnson. Learn more on pages 8 and 9.
Pope to create 13 new cardinals in October
By Cindy Wooden (CNS)
VATICAN CITY (CNS)
Pope Francis announced he will
create 13 new cardinals Oct. 5,
choosing prelates from 13 differ
ent nations as a sign of “the mis
sionary vocation of the Church
that continues to proclaim the
merciful love of God to all men
and women of the earth.”
The only Canadian named
was 73-year-old Jesuit Father
Michael Czerny, undersecre
tary of the Section for Migrants
and Refugees at the Dicastery
for Promoting Integral Human
Development. None of the new
cardinals is from the United
States.
Cardinal-designate Czerny,
who Pope Francis had earlier
named as a special secretary
for the Synod of Bishops for the
Amazon, was in Guararema,
Brazil, when the announcement
was made. He told Catholic News
Service in a text message that he
had not known he was going to
be made a cardinal.
Announcing the names of the
new cardinals Sept. 1, the pope
included 10 men who are under
the age of 80 and therefore will
be eligible to vote in a conclave
to elect a new pope. Three of the
future cardinals are already over
the age of 80, and the pope said
he chose them because of their
service to the Church.
“Let us pray for the new car
dinals so that, confirming their
adhesion to Christ, they will help
me in my ministry as bishop of
Rome for the good of the entire
faithful, holy people of God,” the
pope told pilgrims who had gath
ered to pray the midday Angelus
with him.
In addition to Cardinal-
designate Czerny, two other
members of the group are also
Vatican officials: 67-year-old
Bishop Miguel Angel Ayuso
Guixot, president of the Pontifical
Council for Interreligious
Dialogue; and 53-year-old
Archbishop Jose Tolentino Calaca
de Mendonca, Vatican archivist
and librarian.
One of the over-80 cardi-
nals-designate is 82-year-old
Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald,
a Missionary of Africa born in
England, who had served as pres
ident of the Pontifical Council for
Interreligious Dialogue and later
as Vatican nuncio to Egypt.
The others, in the order they
were named by the pope, were:
•-Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo
Hardjoatmodjo of Jakarta,
Indonesia, 69.
- Archbishop Juan Garcia
Rodriguez of Havana, 71.
- Archbishop Fridolin Ambongo
Besungu of Kinshasa, Congo, 59.
- Archbishop Jean-Claude
Hollerich of Luxembourg, 61.
- Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri of
Huehuetenango, Guatemala, 72.
- Archbishop Matteo Zuppi of
Bologna, Italy, 63.
- Archbishop Cristobal Lopez
Romero of Rabat, Morocco, 67.
- Retired Archbishop Sigitas
Tamkevicius of Kaunas,
Lithuana, 80.
- Retired Bishop Eugenio dal
Corso of Benguela, Angola, 80.