VATICAN CITY, Dec 8 — A visibly bruised Pope Francis created 21 new cardinals from five continents on Saturday, including bishops from Algiers, Tehran, Tokyo and Abidjan – many...
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“The Lord is looking to you, who come from different backgrounds and cultures, and represent the catholicity of the Church,” the pope told the group inside St. Peter’s Basilica. The Argentine pope – the first pontiff from Latin America – has championed a grassroots Church that values its faithful even far from the Vatican, and has sought to promote the clergy of developing countries to the highest ranks.
With the new promotions, Francis has chosen nearly 78 percent of the 140 so-called “elector” cardinals. Francis implored the new cardinals to “make every effort to walk in the path of Jesus”, warning them not “to to be dazzled by the allure of prestige, the seduction of power”.
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