LA CIVILTÀ CATTOLICA | Thirteen New Cardinals Serving the Church
7 ottobre 2019
How the College of Cardinals is becoming truly international
The College of Cardinals has become increasingly international, while the representation of Europe decreases to the benefit of Asia and Latin America.
Once again the pope in his choices has not forgotten people who have been subject to religious persecution, such as the Lithuanian Archbishop Emeritus Tamkevičius of Kaunas, who was arrested in 1983 and sentenced to 10 years in prison in labor camps for anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation. He was exiled to Siberia in 1988 until his release after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The missionary dimension is clearly present in the choice of the new cardinals: 8 out of 13 of the new cardinals belong to missionary orders.
GianPaolo Salvini SJ
Emeritus editor, La Civiltà Cattolica
laciviltacattolica.com/thirteen-ne…the-church/
The College of Cardinals has become increasingly international, while the representation of Europe decreases to the benefit of Asia and Latin America.
Once again the pope in his choices has not forgotten people who have been subject to religious persecution, such as the Lithuanian Archbishop Emeritus Tamkevičius of Kaunas, who was arrested in 1983 and sentenced to 10 years in prison in labor camps for anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation. He was exiled to Siberia in 1988 until his release after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The missionary dimension is clearly present in the choice of the new cardinals: 8 out of 13 of the new cardinals belong to missionary orders.
GianPaolo Salvini SJ
Emeritus editor, La Civiltà Cattolica
laciviltacattolica.com/thirteen-ne…the-church/