{"id":25262,"date":"2010-01-18T15:46:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/new-cardinals-in-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-01-18T15:46:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:46:27","slug":"new-cardinals-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/new-cardinals-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"New Cardinals in 2010???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Cardinal%20apparel.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cardinal apparel.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/Cardinal apparel-thumb-250x380-5490.jpeg\" width=\"250\" height=\"380\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>At the moment there are 112 cardinal electors should we have to elect a new pope. The papally imposed number of 120 is usually enshrined in our minds but we can conceivably have more (or fewer) should a reigning pontiff decide the matter. Pope John Paul II confirmed certain norms in a document <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/john_paul_ii\/apost_constitutions\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_apc_22021996_universi-dominici-gregis_en.html\">Universi Dominici Gregis<\/a> in 1996. Nevertheless, in 2010, 11 cardinals of the Holy Roman Church will lose their ability to vote in a papal conclave because they will turn 80. Their Eminences, Cardinals Ambrozic, Maida, Williams, Herranz, McCarrick, Poupard, DiGiorgio, Daoud, Giordano, Tumi, Pujats. You&#8217;ll notice that 2 are from the USA and 1 from Canada.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pope Benedict has already had two consistories (2006 &amp; 2007) making 38 cardinals. Mind you, some were ineligible to vote in a conclave from the first day of the cardinalate.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, it is very likely that the Holy Father could create new cardinals in 2010.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Regarding bishops, at the moment there are, in 2010, 11 bishops submitting a letter of resignation to the Holy Father because they&#8217;re 75, there are 4 who turned 75 in 2009 (and no replace nominated yet) and there remain 6 empty dioceses. If no one dies or gets into trouble, the USA could see 21 new bishops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment there are 112 cardinal electors should we have to elect a new pope. The papally imposed number of 120 is usually enshrined in our minds but we can conceivably have more (or fewer) should a reigning pontiff decide the matter. Pope John Paul II confirmed certain norms in a document Universi Dominici &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/new-cardinals-in-2010\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Cardinals in 2010???<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[2015,1906,1907],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}