The pope will create 13 new cardinals in October, including two Spanish

Pope Francis offered this Sunday two surprises to the faithful who were waiting for him on St. Peter's Square for the prayer of the Angelus. The first is that he appeared at the window of his office at the Vatican Apostolic Palace about half an hour late. He explained the reason for the delay, for which he apologized: he had been locked in an elevator for 25 minutesSo we had to call the fire department with the smallest state in the world to get it back on track. The second surprise occurred after the Marian prayer, when he announced that on October 5, he would preside over a session during which will create 13 new cardinals, 10 of them under the age of 80 and, therefore, could participate in a possible conclave for the election of Francisco's successor. The other three are archbishops and emeritus who have pbaded this age group and to whom the pope will impose the biretta and the cardinal's ring in recognition of his dedication to the Catholic Church. .

Among the prelates of the twelve future voters, there are two Spaniards: the Sevillan Comboni Miguel Angel Ayuso, President since last May of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and one of the greatest scholars of Islam of the Catholic Church today; and the Salesian of Almeria Christopher Lopez, Archbishop of Rabat, who welcomed Jorge Mario Bergoglio during his visit to Morocco last March. After two decades of experience as a missionary in Egypt and Sudan, where "he buried many people who are starving," Ayuso proposed in a recent interview to religious magazine "Vida Nueva & # 39; ; his recipe against Islamophobia: "Do not build walls, but open avenues and build bridges through a culture of dialogue, deep and real knowledge of what we need to know together to separate and separate everything which results from manipulation, hoax and other things that only divide communities. "

The singular choice of the other protagonists of the meeting that Francisco will officiate next month, the sixth of his pontificate, shows his Willingness to ensure that small Catholic or minority communities have a voice in the College of Cardinals, far from Rome. Thus, it is understood that he will create Cardinals for the Indonesian Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo, Archbishop of Jakarta, or for the Guatemalan Álvaro Ramazzini Imeri, Bishop of Huehuetenango. They are also part of the group of prelates who will choose Bergoglio's successor as two ecclesiastics in perfect harmony with their way of governing the Church. The first is the Jesuit born in the former Czechoslovakia, Michael Czerny, Deputy Secretary of the Migration and Refugees Section of the Department of Integral Human Development, an agency whose speech was reserved by the Pope himself. The other is the Italian Matteo Zuppi, archbishop of Bologna and linked to the Community of Sant Egidio. Zuppi participated in an act of disarmament of the ETA that took place in April 2017 in Baiona, France, a move that raised bulbs in the Basque church.