{"id":28807,"date":"2018-05-22T07:41:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T07:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=28807"},"modified":"2018-05-23T08:03:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T08:03:59","slug":"patriarch-sako-among-the-14-new-cardinals-announced-by-pope-francis-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/05\/22\/patriarch-sako-among-the-14-new-cardinals-announced-by-pope-francis-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriarch Sako and Archbishop Coutts among the 14 new cardinals announced by Pope Francis -ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Patriarch Sako and Archbishop Coutts among the 14 new cardinals announced by Pope Francis\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pope Francis declared on Sunday that he had chosen 14 new cardinals. \u201cI am happy to announce that on June 29, I will hold a consistory to make 14 new cardinals,\u201d he told pilgrims and tourists in St. Peter\u2019s Square.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe countries of provenance express the universality of the church, which continues to announce the merciful love of God to all men on Earth,\u201d he added. The fourteen prelates will enter the College of Cardinals formally on\u00a0 29 June the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, in a consistory ceremony held in Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Among the new cardinals are Louis Raphael\u00a0 Sako, the Baghdad-based patriarch of Babylonia of the Chaldeans; and Joseph Coutts, <\/span>Archbishop<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> of Karachi, Pakistan. The Pope has repeatedly highlighted the plight of Christians who are being persecuted and even killed for their faith in areas where Islamic fundamentalists have targeted them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After he read the list of 11 new cardinals who are under the age of <\/span>80<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and therefore would be able to vote for Francis\u2019s successor, the pope named three others already over 80 who\u2019ve nonetheless \u201cdistinguished themselves for their service to the Church.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Francis has already appointed 60 cardinals since he became Pope 5 years ago. However, he is determined to make the College of Cardinals less European than it had been in centuries past. The list of new cardinals includes the Pope\u2019s chief aide renowned for helping Rome\u2019s poor and homeless and prelates from Africa, Asia and South America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ACN Malt<\/span>a<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patriarch Sako and Archbishop Coutts among the 14 new cardinals announced by Pope Francis\u00a0 Pope Francis declared on Sunday that he had chosen 14 new cardinals. \u201cI am happy to announce that on June 29, I will hold a consistory to make 14 new cardinals,\u201d he told pilgrims and tourists in St. Peter\u2019s Square. \u201cThe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-newsletters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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