24 new cardinals named...2 from U.S.

A post about the 24 new cardinals named today from Whispers in the Loggia blog. The post begins...


We have liftoff -- a 20 November consistory to create 24 new cardinals.....

Here, the biglietto, in order: 

• Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints;
• Antonio Naguib, patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts,
• Robert Sarah, president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum,
• Francesco Monterisi, archpriest of St Paul's Outside the Walls,
• Fortunato Baldelli, major penitentiary of the Roman church,
• Raymond Burke, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura,
• Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
• Paolo Sardi, pro-Patron of the Order of Malta,
• Mauro Piacenza, prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy
• Velasio DePaolis CS, prefect for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See (& papal delegate to the Legionaries of Christ)
• Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture
• Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, archbishop-emeritus of Lusaka (Zambia)
• Raul Eduardo Vela Chiliboga, archbishop-emeritus of Quito (Ecuador)
• Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, archbishop of Kinshasa
• Paolo Romeo, archbishop of Palermo
• Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington
• Raymundo Damasceno Assis, archbishop of Aparecida
• Kazmierz Nycz, archbishop of Warsaw
• Malcolm Ranjith, archbishop of Colombo
• Reinhard Marx, archbishop of Munich and Freising

...and the over 80s:

• Archbishop Jose Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Military Ordinary-emeritus of Spain
• Bishop Elio Sgreccia, president-emeritus of the Pontifical Academy for Life
• Msgr Walter Brandmuller, president-emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for Historical Sciences
• Msgr Domenico Bartolucci, director-emeritus of the Sistine Choir

And, well, there you have it.

That said, the twin retired prelates -- among other aspects -- make this list stranger than almost any other in memory...

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