Pope Francis reported that on September 30 he will hold a new consistory to create 21 new cardinals from countries such as Spain, Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela and underpin their succession in a future conclave.
Pope Francisco He named Monsignor Diego Padrón cardinal. The Supreme Pontiff reported that on September 30 he will hold a new consistory to create 21 new cardinals.
This July 9, the ecclesiastical authority indicated that there will be three Spaniards, three Argentines and one Colombian among the new cardinals. He explained that the Spanish are the new Archbishop of Madrid, Monsignor José Cobo; the major rector of the Salesian Congregation, Ángel Fernández Artime, and François-Xavier Bustillo, who is Bishop of Ajaccio in France, on the island of Corsica (south).
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Francis announced by surprise the celebration of this new consistory after the Sunday Angelus prayer from the window of the Apostolic Palace and advanced that the appointments “express the universality of the Church” because they are distributed throughout the planet, he reported. EFE.
Of these 21 new cardinals, 18 would have the right to vote in the future and eventual conclave to succeed Francis, as they are under 80 years of age, as stipulated by Canon Law, while three exceed that age but the pope has wanted to highlight that way his “service to the Church”.
Among these last “emeritus” cardinals are the Venezuelan Diego Padrón Sánchez; the Capuchin friar Luis Pascual Dri, confessor of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Pompeii in Buenos Aires and the Italian nuncio Agostino Marchetto.
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