The Extra Beatitude and the College of Cardinals

13 Responses to The Extra Beatitude and the College of Cardinals

1. Saint Irenaeus says:

   6 January 2012 at 12:38 AM

   I saw you tweeted to Tornielli that you were “disappointed”, but as I don’t know Italian, I couldn’t discern by what.
2. Mariana says:

   6 January 2012 at 6:26 AM

   I suppose this is like the 11th Commandment (at least in Swedish Lutheran circles…), Thou shalt not be flabbergasted : ) ?
3. robtbrown says:

   6 January 2012 at 7:18 AM

   I find it more interesting that Venice is still vacant.
4. Phil_NL says:

   6 January 2012 at 7:58 AM

   By the way, the list of the new cardinals: http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/event/cs2012.html
5. JohnMa says:

   6 January 2012 at 8:37 AM

   Three non-bishops. The
6. JonPatrick says:

   6 January 2012 at 8:47 AM

   Interesting that Abp. Dolan received the red hat even though Cardinal Egan is still eligible to vote in a papal election and they usually don’t have 2 voting cardinals in the same archdiocese. Glad to see they went ahead with Abp. Dolan though as I think he is good for the church in the US.
7. Tim Ferguson says:

   6 January 2012 at 8:58 AM

   I’m always more fascinated by who doesn’t make the list. It’s interesting that Dolan got it while Egan is still voting, as JonPatrick points out, but it’s more interesting that Nichols didn’t get it, since he’s in the exact same situation with Murphy-O’Connor.

   No Africans, only one Latin American (and a curial one at that), a seeming preponderance of Italians and Iberians. The Maronites, Syrians, Armenians, Ukrainians and Melkites passed over…
8. gloriainexcelsis says:

   6 January 2012 at 9:08 AM

   Dum spiro spero is my motto.
9. Peggy R says:

   6 January 2012 at 9:48 AM

   Once a StL Cardinal, always a StL Cardinal! We’d rather have him than Pujols!
10. albizzi says:

    6 January 2012 at 10:14 AM

    “Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum et vitam venturi saeculi”
    Thus I hope I will not be disappointed.
11. Centristian says:

    6 January 2012 at 12:40 PM

    “Beati qui non expectant, quia non disappointabuntur.”

    John Cardinal Zuhlsdorf. Hmmm.

    See, the problem was that you haven’t got a musical name…like “Coccopalmerio”. This conclave was clearly for clergy with fun names only…just ask Tom Collins (guess what everyone’s going to be drinking at happy hour in the Archdiocese of Toronto tonight). I’m afraid, Father, that you’ll have to wait for a future conclave that elevates clergy with vanilla names. Perhaps when the day comes, Ranier Welki and John Tong Hon be there to assist you with your galero.
12. Dr. Eric says:

    6 January 2012 at 12:41 PM

    The Eastern Patriarchs are more and more refusing The Red Hat from what I’ve been reading.
13. irishgirl says:

    7 January 2012 at 12:09 PM

    ‘John Cardinal Zuhlsdorf’….uhm, I think that sounds pretty ‘musical’ to me!
    Maybe it’s due to the fact that I’m half-German!