Consistory: 20 new Cardinals and 2 Saints for the universal Church - Vatican News
Consistory: 20 new Cardinals and 2 Saints for the universal Church - Vatican News
Cardinal-desates from five continents receive their red hat from Pope Francis on Saturday. Members of three religious orders will enter the College .....




Archive picture from the 2020 Mass with new Cardinals  (Vatican Media)

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Consistory: 20 new Cardinals and a pair of Saints for the famous Church Cardinal-desates from 5 continents get maintain in their purple hat from Pope Francis on Saturday. Members of three non secular orders will enter the College of Cardinals, and four new international locations can be represented therein: Mongolia, Paraguay, Singapore and East Timor. At the notion, they may approve the canonization of the founding father of the Scalabrinians, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, and Salesian layman, Artemide Zatti.

By Salvatore Cernuzio

Existing and new people of the College of Cardinals from each corner of the globe collect in Rome on Saturday, 27 August, for Pope Francis' eighth Consistory, in which he creates 20 new cardinals, sixteen of whom are underneath the age of eighty, as a result electors in a future Conclave, and 4 non-electors, over the age of eighty.

The birthday celebration marks a normal Consistory, with Church leaders from the five continents. It may also be a "combined" Consistory with the appearance of the 20 new cardinals, who vote shortly afterwards on the reasons for canonization of Blesseds. The Consistory takes area at the surrender of August, which is often a quiet length, and includes other celebrations over the following days and next week with the mirrored picture and in-intensity test assembly on Praedicate Evangelium, the Apostolic Constitution reforming the Roman Curia.

Archive photograph from the Consistory of 2020

Rite of advent of latest Cardinals

The rite in the course of which Pope Francis will location the purple biretta on the modern Cardinals, offer them their ring, and ass them their name and rank takes vicinity at four p.M. In St. Peter's Basilica.

It starts with the making a song of "Tu es Petrus" and words of thanksgiving to the Holy Father with the aid of the Cardinal first at the list. The Pope announces the components of introduction of new cardinals, who guarantees their allegiance and obedience to the Pope and his successors "even unto the outpouring of blood."

One via one they technique the seat of the Pope to obtain on their knees the symbols of the cardinalate: red skullcap, biretta, ring, the bull assing the call and rank. Each receives an embody of peace from Pope Francis, a gesture repeated without delay in a while by means of the Cardinal Dean, the senior Cardinal Priest and senior Cardinal Deacon, representing the entire College of Cardinals.

Saturday's ceremony of introduction is to be observed with the aid of using the Ordinary Public Consistory for the vote on the canonization of Blesseds Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, Bishop of Piacenza, founder of the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles and the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo, better referred to as the Scalabrinians, and Artemide Zatti, a professed Salesian layman.

Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, reads the Peroratio and in brief gives the biographies of the Blesseds. The Pope then offers the outcome of the votes and names the day for the canonizations.

At the give up, he leaves the Basilica thru the Door of Prayer with the new Cardinals, and in all likelihood proceeds to the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican Gardens to go to and greet Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, a gesture he has made every Consistory to date.

From 6 to eight p.M., the modern Cardinals then greet the sincere of Rome and people travelling from their home worldwide places for the same old put up-Consistory congratulatory visits. These visits take place inside the Paul VI Hall and the Apostolic Palace.

Then they acquire collectively on the following Monday and Tuesday, 29 and 30 August, for 2 days of in-depth take a look at of Praedicate Evangelium, and sooner or later, on Tuesday at 5:30 p.M., they have a good time Mass together with Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica.

Cardinals in St. Peter's Basillica

Universality and the peripheries 

The names of the brand new Cardinals have been announced with the aid of the Pope from the window of the Apostolic Palace at some point of the Angelus on 29 May, together with a request to wish for them "so that, in confirming their constancy to Christ, they'll help me in my ministry as Bishop of Rome for the good of all God's holy trustworthy human beings."

The listing of names confirmed the twofold criterion visible inside the preceding seven consistories of Pope Francis. They are internationality, with a unique interest on the worldwide south, and attention to the peripheries, this is, the border territories that traditionally have by no means had a Cardinal, in preference to locations traditionally taken into consideration "Cardinal-sees." 

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