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Pope Francis announces new Consistory for the creation of 10 new Cardinals, on October 5th. The group includes 7 new Cardinal electors, pushing the current number to 125
The new Cardinal are:
1. +Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and leading historian on Islam.
2. ++José Tolentino Mendonça, Librarian of the Holy Roman Church, second rate Portuguese Poet, consecrated a Bishop only last year
1. +Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and leading historian on Islam.
2. ++José Tolentino Mendonça, Librarian of the Holy Roman Church, second rate Portuguese Poet, consecrated a Bishop only last year
3. ++Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo, Archbishop of Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim-majority country. Catholics make up 2.7% of the population.
4. ++ Juan García Rodríguez, Archbishop of Havana, famously refused to allow Summorum Pontificum.
4. ++ Juan García Rodríguez, Archbishop of Havana, famously refused to allow Summorum Pontificum.
5. ++ Fridolin Ambongo Besungu O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Kinshasa, DRC. An African Bishop with close collaboration with the German-speaking Episcopacy.
6. ++ Jean-Claude Hollerich S.J., Archbishop of Luxembourg, Pro-EU, anti-Populist, incredibly political Prelate.
6. ++ Jean-Claude Hollerich S.J., Archbishop of Luxembourg, Pro-EU, anti-Populist, incredibly political Prelate.
7. +Álvaro Ramazzini Imeri, Bishop of Huehuetenango, Guatemala. Social justice warrior, sympathetic to Liberation Theology.
8. ++Matteo Zuppi, Archbishop of Bologna, collaborator with Sant'Egidio, infamously contributed to the Italian translation of Fr. James Martin SJ, LGBT book
8. ++Matteo Zuppi, Archbishop of Bologna, collaborator with Sant'Egidio, infamously contributed to the Italian translation of Fr. James Martin SJ, LGBT book
9. ++ Cristóbal López Romero S.D.B., Archbishop of Rabat, Morocco. A Muslim majority country, where 0.7% of the population are Catholic.
10. Fr. Michael Czerny, SJ, Undersecretary for the Migrants & Refugees Section, an issue close to heart of Pope Francis
10. Fr. Michael Czerny, SJ, Undersecretary for the Migrants & Refugees Section, an issue close to heart of Pope Francis
New Cardinals non-electors:
1. ++Michael Louis Fitzgerald, expert on Islam, who headed the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue from 2002 to 2006.
2. ++Sigitas Tamkevičius, who spent many years in a Soviet Gulag
3. +Eugenio Dal Corso, Italian missionary Bishop in Angola
1. ++Michael Louis Fitzgerald, expert on Islam, who headed the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue from 2002 to 2006.
2. ++Sigitas Tamkevičius, who spent many years in a Soviet Gulag
3. +Eugenio Dal Corso, Italian missionary Bishop in Angola
**Correction: Pope Francis announces a new Consistory for the creation of 13 new Cardinals on October 5th. The group includes 10 new Cardinal electors, pushing the current number of electors to 128.
