Another Vaticanista hazards
to say the Pope will announce
a new consistory on Oct. 20
Translated from
Sept. 4, 2010
Before the end of the Synod Assembly on the Middle East which will take place at the Vatican on Oct. 10-24, Benedict XVI will announce a new consistory to create new cardinals.
This announcement could be made at the General Audience of Wednesday, Oct. 20, in which case, the Consistory would take place a month later, on the Feast of Christ the King.
By January 1, 2011, the number of cardinal electors will be down to 101 out of the maximum 120 set by Paul VI and reaaffirmed by John Paul II. So the Pope could create at least 19 new cardinals.
It is equally likely that there will be another consistory next year since Benedict's second consistory took place in 2007, and the number of Curial heads and metropolitan archbishops traditionally honored with the rank of cardinal has risen.
The leading candidates are thought to be:
From the Curia: Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Sainthood; Raymond Leo Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Segnatura; Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture; Francesco Monterisi, arch-priest of St. Paul outside the Walls; Paolo Sardi, patron of the Sovereign order of Malta;
From metropolitan archbishops: Paolo Romeo, of Palermo; Giuseppe Betori, of Florence; Donald Wuerl of Washington, DC; Edmond O'Brien of Baltimore; Timothy Dolan of New York; Thomas Collins of Toronto, Reinhard Marx of Munich; Kazimierz Nycz of Warsaw, Braulio Rodríguez Plaza of Toledo, Vincent Nichols of Westminster (London), Willem Jacobus Eijk of Utrecht, André-Joseph Léonard of Mechelen-Brussels; Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo; Charles Maung Bo of Yangon (Myanmar), Peter Takeo Okada (Tokyo), Nicolás Cotugno Fanizzi of Montevideo, Orani João Tempesta of Rio de Janeiro; Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kinshasa (Congo), Simon-Victor Tonyé Bakot of Yaoundé (Cameroon), and Cyprian Kizito Lwanga of Kampala (Uganda).
[The metropolitans alone already number 19.]
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 04/09/2010 17:48]