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Volume 7 Number 20
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Faith and happiness abound at St. Pius Tenth School in Greensboro; this is evidenced in the faces of kindergarten students (from left) Kelsey Fennie, Michael LeCompte, and Isabel Chasse. The three youngsters will take part in Catholic Schools Week festivities, January 25-31 Catholic schools in the diocese join with schools nationwide in marking the event, a joint program of the National Catholic Educational Association and the United States Catholic Conference. The purpose of Catholic Schools Week is to build support and recognition for the over 8,200 Catholic schools nationwide. During this week, many dioceses (including Charlotte) encourage parents to enroll their children in Catholic schools. It is also an opportunity for interested citizens to volunteer their time and talents to local Catholic schools. .
Pope Names 22 Cardinals, Two Are Secret, Two From U.S. By CINDY WOODEN VATICAN CITY (CNS) — John Paul
Chinese prelate
Pope
n named 22 new cardinals Jan.
18, including
Archbishops Francis E.
George of Chicago, Aloysius M. Ambrozic of Toronto and J. Francis Stafford, the U.S. president of the
Pon-
Council for the Laity. The pope's announcement during his midday Angelus address included two
tifical
Cardinals in 1991.
Pope John Paul said the 20 prelates whose names he announced would be formally
made members of
the College
of Cardinals during a Feb. 21 consistory at the
Vatican.
Kozlowiecki and two other bishops who were the last surviving bishops to have been imprisoned in Dachau, the Nazi concentration camp. Not counting those named secretly, the new cardinals come from 13 countries. Eight of the 20 hold Vatican posi-
Passionist Father Ciro Benedettini,
a Vatican spokesman, said that in waiving the limit of 120 for this round of
nominations, the pope did not formally
change the
rule.
The new
cardinals
pope included
announced by the
six Italians in addition to
com-
Cardinal-designate Cheli, which will bring the total number of Italian cardi-
ing from various parts of the world, elo-
nals to 41. After the Feb. 21 consistory,
tions.
"The group of new
cardinals,
22 of them would be eUgible
church," Pope John Paul said after read-
conclave.
person or his ministry.
Archbishop Giuseppe Uhac, secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, had been informed three days earlier that he was to be among the new cardinals, but had died. "The Lord called him to himself this morning," the pope said. Archbishop Uhac was 73 years old. Among the 20 cardinals-designate named Jan. 18 was an 86-year-old Polish missionary, retired Archbishop Adam Kozlowiecki of Lusaka, Zambia. Pope John Paul has made it a practice every time he names new cardinals to include at least one theologian or bishop who is more than 80 years old. The nomination is seen as a sign of the
named
pope's personal appreciation for the work
ber will not return to the 120 limit until
of the
4 birthday of Cardinal-designate Giovanni Cheli, president of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers.
said
on the
the limit
cardinals
80.
cardinals "in
keeping their identities secret. Nineteen of the 20 cardinals-designate are under the age of 80; after their formal installation in the College of Car-
tore,"
would be
a conclave to elect a
eligible to vote in
new
pope. Cardi-
nals nar^ied secretly are not eligible to
enter a conclave.
Popes have named cardinals "in pec-
meaning "in the heart," when, for political or other reasons, a public announcement could make it dif-
tore," literally
The
homeland and
nomination and formally inducted him in the College of his
quently reflects the universality of the
— He he was waiving number of under age — He named two pec-
ficult for the
left his
living in exile in the United States,
pope announced
In addition, he said that Croatian
surprises:
dinals, they
was the
last cardinal
"in pectore"
was Chinese Cardinal Ignatius Kung PinMei of Shanghai. Pope John Paul secretly named him a cardinal in 1979. Once the
cleric.
When the pope visited Poland in June 1997, he paid tribute to Archbishop
The cardinals-designate, he have generously expended
to vote in a
The nominations of Archbishops
ing out the names. their
said,
energy
George and Stafford
number of U.S.
will bring to 12 the
cardinals; all but retired
either in serving the universal church
See Cardinals, page 8
through a Vatican job or by carrying out their pastoral ministry in a diocese.
pope said, there were so many clergymen who deserved to be cardinals that he was setting aside Pope Paul VI's 1975 ruling that there should be no more than 120 "cardinal-electors" the cardinals under age 80 eligible to vote In fact, the
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in a conclave.
Barring deaths, there will be 123 cardinal-electors
the Oct.
on Feb. 21. The num-
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