LifeSiteNews.com

Friday February 24, 2006



     

Special Report on Life and Family Statements of Pope Benedict's New Cardinal Selections

By Hilary White and John-Henry Westen

VATICAN, February 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On March 25, Pope Benedict XVI will elevate fifteen men to the College of Cardinals.  Of the fifteen, only twelve will be of an age to vote in the conclave for a new pope and thus the remainder are seen as honorific appointments. 

LifeSiteNews.com has compiled a short summary of pro-life and pro-family statements by those twelve. Those statements reveal that the Pope has placed a high priority on choosing Cardinals who are firm defenders of the sacredness of life, the natural family and traditional Christian morality. A number of the new cardinals have been especially outspoken and active on these issues.

The twelve new cardinals are:

- Archbishop William Joseph Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
- Archbishop Franc Rode C.M., prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
- Archbishop Agostino Vallini, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura.
- Archbishop Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino of Caracas, Venezuela.
- Archbishop Gaudencio B. Rosales of Manila, Philippines
- Archbishop Jean-Pierre Ricard of Bordeaux, France
- Archbishop Antonio Canizares Llovera of Toledo, Spain
- Archbishop Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk of Seoul, Korea
- Archbishop Sean Patrick O'Malley O.F.M. Cap., of Boston, U.S.A.
- Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow, Poland.
- Archbishop Carlo Caffarra of Bologna, Italy.
- Bishop Joseph Zen Ze-kiun S.D.B. of Hong Kong, China

* See the complete LifeSiteNews.com SPECIAL REPORT:
The Life and Family Statements of Pope Benedict's New Cardinal Selections
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/feb/060224a.html

Back to Top Back to Top


SHARE THIS STORY: E-mail  Print  Newsvine  Digg  Reddit  Del.icio.us  Facebook



MORE NEWS: LifeSiteNews.com Home Page  Last 10 Days   Archives   Special Reports

Copyright © LifeSiteNews.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License. You may republish this article without request provided the content is not altered and it is clearly attributed to "LifeSiteNews.com". Any Internet re-publishing of original LifeSiteNews articles MUST additionally include a live link to www.LifeSiteNews.com. Republishing of articles on LifeSiteNews that have come from other news sources as noted is subject to the conditions of those sources.