Pope Francis announces names of new cardinals

[UrbScotty]

As was previously announced, on February 22, the Feast of the Chair of Peter, I will have the joy of holding a Consistory, during which I will name 16 new Cardinals, who, coming from 12 countries from every part of the world, represent the deep ecclesial relationship between the Church of Rome and the other Churches throughout the world. The following day [February 23] I will preside at a solemn concelebration with the new Cardinals, while on February 20 and 21 I will hold a Consistory with all the Cardinals to reflect on the theme of the family.

Here are the names of the new Cardinals:

http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-announces-names-of-new-cardinals

A lot of interesting names here - Gerhard Muller and Pietro Parolin, who are among the highest ranking officials in the Vatican.

There seems to be a big deal being made of the fact that there are no Americans on the list - but that was expected, as Gomez and Chaput's predecessors (Mahony and Rigali, respectively) are still under 80 and therefore eligible to vote.

[rug]

1. Müller is indeed interesting.

Doctrinal views

Status of Protestant communities[edit]

In a speech he gave in October 2011, while quoting the Second Vatican Council's document on ecumenism, Unitatis Redintegratio, he said that "the Catholic Magisterium is far from denying an ecclesial character or an ecclesial existence to ‘the separated Churches and ecclesial Communities of the West".[17]

Liberation theology[edit]

He was also a pupil and friend of Gustavo Gutiérrez, the “father” of Latin-American liberation theology. Commenting on Gutierrez, Archbishop Müller stated: "The theology of Gustavo Gutiérrez, independently of how you look at it, is orthodox because it is orthopractic and it teaches us the correct way of acting in a Christian fashion since it comes from true faith." Gutiérrez was not censored by the Holy See although he was asked to modify some of his writings.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ludwig_M%C3%BCller

But he has given mixed signals to the Pfarrer-Initiative in Germany.