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At a ceremony in the St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Francis celebrated the fifth consistory, the ceremony of appointment of new cardinals ] of his pontificate and that as in the previous ones, it was marked by wanting to give the College of Cardinals a greater representation of the more distant Churches.
Therefore, today they swore allegiance and loyalty to Pope and his successors, the patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans in Iraq Louis Raphael I Sako in what is interpreted as a gesture of closeness to the situation of persecuted Christians in the region and Joseph Coutts archbishop of Karachi, Pakistan another place where the Christians are a minority.
After this consistory there will be in the future conclave a Japanese Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda Archbishop of Osaka and a Cardinal of Madagascar, Désiré Tsarahazana, Archbishop of Toamasina
A Jesuit was also appointed Cardinal as Pope Archbishop of Huancayo, Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno and great advocate of the Amazon and indigenous people.
The rest are appointments related to the Curia like the Spanish Luis Ladaria Ferrer also Jesuit and since July 1, 2017, he is prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ; the former deputy of the Secretary of State and now Prefect of The Cause of the Saints Giovanni Angelo Becciu .
Also the Pope's Shrine, ] Konrad Krajewsky who will be a cardinal among the poor since he assured that he will continue his work of going out to help the homeless.
Complete 14 The Vicar of Rome Angelo De Donatis and the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima Antonio dos Santos.
And the three who already have reached the age of eighty and can not be part of a conclave: the Mexican Sergio Obeso Rivera the Bolivian Toribio Ticona Porco and the Spanish Aquilino Bocos Merino .
To those who were previously called "princes of the Church", the Pope reminded them that we must flee "jealousies" and "palace intrigues".
He emphasized that "the highest decoration" and "greatest promotion" that they can obtain is to "serve Christ in the faithful city of God in the hungry, the forgotten, the incarcerated, the sick, the drug addicts, the abandoned … "
He also encouraged them, despite their new accusation, never to look" the others over the shoulder "and feel that it is only" legitimate to look at a person from top to bottom, when we help him get up "
During the creation ceremony of the Cardinals term used in the Church to designate this designation, the new Cardinals knelt before the Pope to receive the mortar that Francis reminded them in Latin that it was "red as a sign dignity of the cardinal's office, and that means that you are ready to act with force, to the point of spreading your blood for the growth of the Christian faith … "
And the cardinal sounds" sign of this dignity, pastoral care and stronger union with the Seat of the Apostle Saint Peter . "
The Pope later exchanged the kiss of peace with the new members of the College of Cardinals and assigned them a diakonia, a Roman parish, with which are related to the clergy of Rome.
The Spanish Ladaria, a Jesuit like Francisco, was granted to the church of San Ignacio de Loyola while in Bocos Merino, the parish of S anta Lucia de Congalone .
At the new Peruvian cardinal the church of San Pedro and Pablo ; the Mexican obese, that of San Leon I; and the Boliviano Ticona Pordo, that of San Joaquín and Santa Ana
Tomorrow Francisco will celebrate the Mass for the celebration of the Saints Peter and Paul, patrons of Rome, with the new cardinals on the Plaza of San Pedro
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