The New Cardinals | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: A few thoughts on the next Consistory since I made them earlier when the news was announced. First, the appointment of cardinals in new areas might be tokenism or it might be designed for each man's skill set when the inevitably join the Curia - now that would upset the apple cart.
Second, on America and the lack of appointments. I would have loved to see Gregory and Cupich, as well as Gomez, but I am equally glad that Chaput and some others did not get a the hat. I would call it a mixed blessing, but it is probably due to the intervention of O'Malley or Dolan, who likely did not want the appointments to deepen cultural rifts among both the people and the bishops.
Third, one wonders if Francis has adopted the harmless fascination with the prophesies of St. Malachy. If he has, then there is no point in having cardinals because he is the last Pope (technically Benedict was supposed to be. The next Pope is Peter the Roman, who will be an anti-pope and whose death was predicted by both Malachy and our Lady of Fatima in the third secret. If so, why not appoint people who will never vote anyway (as very soon we will - indeed we formally have- developed full Communion with Orthodoxy)? If only we would adopt their leadership structure with autocephalic patriarchs for each nation or linguistic group. I suspect we will not know if any of this is true until he tells us in a homily in daily Mass or in the Consistory address.
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