I now have the joy to announce that on 24 November, the eve of the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, I will hold a consistory in which, departing from one unit to the numerical limit established by Pope Paul VI, confirmed by my venerable Predecessor John Paul II in the Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis (cf. n. 33), will appoint eighteen cardinals. Here are their names:
1. Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches;
2. Archbishop John Patrick Foley, Pro-Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
3. Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, President of the Pontifical Commission and of the Governorate State of Vatican City;
4. Archbishop Paul Joseph Cordes, president of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum";
5. Archbishop Angelo Comastri, Archpriest of the Vatican Basilica, Vicar General for Vatican City State and President of the Fabbrica di San Pietro;
6. Archbishop Stanislaw Rylko, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity;
7. Archbishop Raffaele Farina, archivist and librarian of the SRC;
8. Archbishop Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, archbishop of Valencia (Spain);
9. Archbishop Seán Baptist Brady, Archbishop of Armagh (Ireland);
10. Archbishop Lluís Martínez Sistach, Archbishop of Barcelona (Spain);
11. Archbishop André Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris (France);
12. Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa (Italy);
13. Archbishop Théodore-Adrien Sarr, Archbishop of Dakar (Senegal);
14. Archbishop Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay (India);
15. Archbishop Francisco Robles Ortega, Archbishop of Monterrey (Mexico);
16. Archbishop Daniel N. DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston (USA);
17. Odilio Archbishop Pedro Scherer, archbishop of São Paulo (Brazil);
18. Bishop John Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi (Kenya).
would also raise to the dignity of Cardinal three venerable prelates and two worthy clergymen, particularly worthy of mention for their dedicated service to the Church:
1. SB Emmanuel III Delly, Patriarca di Babilonia dei Caldei;
2. Mons. Giovanni Coppa, Nunzio Apostolico;
3. Mons. Estanislao Esteban Karlic, Arcivescovo emerito di Paraná (Argentina);
4. P. Urbano Navarrete, S.I., già Rettore della Pontificia Università Gregoriana; e
5. P. Umberto Betti, O.F.M., già Rettore della Pontificia Università Lateranense.
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Tra questi ultimi era stato mio desiderio elevare alla porpora anche l’anziano Vescovo Ignacy Jeż, di Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, in Polonia, benemerito Presule, che ieri è improvvisamente mancato.
A lui va la nostra preghiera di suffragio.
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I nuovi Porporati provengono da varie parti del mondo. They fully reflect the universality of the Church with the multiplicity of her ministries: Prelates close to the meritorious service rendered to the Holy See are pastors who spend their energies to direct contact with the faithful.
Other people there are, very dear to me, and for their dedication to serving the Church well deserve to be elevated to the dignity of Cardinal. I hope to have the opportunity to testify in the future, even so, to them and the countries they belong to my respect and my affection.
entrust the newly elected to the protection of Mary, asking her to assist them in their duties, that they may bear courageous witness in all circumstances their love for Christ and the Church.
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His parents went every year to Jerusalem for the feast of Easter. When he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom, but the days of the feast were over and the way back, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem without his parents knowing it. Believing in the caravan, they went a day's journey, and then began to look for him among their relatives and friends, not finding him, they came looking for him in Jerusalem. After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. And all who heard him were astounded at his intelligence and his answers. 
