Posted in Benedict XVI, Cardinals, Catholicism, College of Cardinals, Next Pope, Papabili, Popes, Religion, papabile, tagged Benedict XVI, Bishop of Rome, Cardinals, College of Cardinals, electors, Next Pope, non-electors, Papabili, Pope, Popes, Religion on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by: Anura Guruge
Another retirement, today, three weeks after the last. This time it was 79 year old Cardinal Christian Wiyghan Tumi of Cameroon, who had been the Archbishop of Douala. The prior material change relating to a cardinal had been on October 24, 2009. That day, Italian Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino (b. Nov. 23, 1932), [...]
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Posted in Benedict XVI, Bishops, Cardinals, Catholicism, College of Cardinals, Next Pope, Papabili, Religion, conclave, tagged Benedict XVI, Cardinal electors, Cardinals, Catholicism, College of Cardinals, conclave, Franciscan, Next Pope, Pope, Religion, suburbicarian, titular on April 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
by Anura Guruge
On July 17, 2009, Cardinal Jean Margéot (Mauritius), a cardinal priest since 1988, died at the age of 93. The last cardinal to die prior to that was the Italian, Franciscan Cardinal Umberto Betti on April 1, 2009, at the age of 87. He had participated in Vatican II. He had been created [...]
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Posted in Benedict XVI, Bishops, Cardinals, Catholicism, College of Cardinals, Next Pope, Papabili, Pope Names, Popes, Religion, conclave, papabile, pope age, tagged 1059 decree, Add new tag, Benedict XVI, Bishop of Rome, Bishops, Cardinals, Catholicism, Catholics, College of Cardinals, John Paul II, John XXIII, n Nomine Domini, Next Pope, Papabili, Peter Erd, Philippe Xavier Barbarin, Pope, pope age, Pope Names, Universi Dominici Gregis on March 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
by Anura Guruge
This is in response to a recent query.
The minimum age to be pope is probably 25, that being the minimum age to be a Catholic priest or deacon, but that needs to be qualified and justified.
Contrary to what some believe current Canon Law [i.e., the 1983 code] does not address this, or for [...]
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Posted in Benedict XVI, Bishops, Cardinals, Catholicism, College of Cardinals, Episcopal lineage, Next Pope, Papabili, Pope Names, Popes, Religion, conclave, papabile, tagged Benedict XVI, Bishops, Cardinal electors, Cardinals, Catholicism, College of Cardinals, conclave, Episcopal lineage, John Paul II, John XXIII, Next Pope, Ouellet, Papabili, Paul VI, Pius XII, Pope, Pope Names, Popes, Religion, Scherer on February 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Concept and ALL the research by Mr. Byron Hoover, Papal Expert from Louisiana.
Earlier this week Byron sent me an e-mail asking whether I realized that Honduran Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, #7 in my 2009 papabili list, had seven popes in his episcopal lineage — and that this was more than what any of the other [...]
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Posted in Benedict XVI, Cardinals, Catholicism, College of Cardinals, Next Pope, Papabili, Pope Names, Popes, Religion, papabile, tagged Benedict XVI, Cardinals, Catholics, College of Cardinals, conclave, John XXIII, Napier, Next Pope, Ouellet, Paddy Power, papabile, Papabili, Pope, Pope Names, Popes, Religion, Scherer, St. Wilfrid on February 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We looked at the names of the first five papabili, viz. Odilo Pedro Scherer (Archbishop of São Paulo, Brazil), Ennio Antonelli (President, Council for the Family, Vatican curia), Marc Ouellet (Archbishop of Québec, Canada), Wilfrid Fox Napier (Archbishop of Durban, South Africa), and Angelo Scola (Patriarch of Venice, Italy), in Part I.
So in this posting [...]
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Posted in Benedict XVI, Cardinals, Catholicism, College of Cardinals, Next Pope, Pope Names, Popes, Religion, tagged Benedict XVI, Cardinals, cardinals college of Cardinals pope conclave, Catholicism, Catholics, College of Cardinals, conclave, John Paul II, Next Pope, Paddy Power, Papabili, Pope, Pope Names, Popes, Religion, Scherer on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
< Updated on July 20, 2009 to reflect the death of Cardinal Jean Margéot (Mauritius) on July 17, 2009.>
When compiling my breakdown of the College of Cardinals I realized that only Italy (with 29) had more electors in the College than the U.S.A. (with 13). I knew that some of the Latin American countries certainly [...]
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