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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Sun Jan 4, 2015, 11:52 AM Jan 2015

Pope Picks 15 New Cardinals To Reflect Diversity

AP | By By FRANCES D'EMILIO

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis named 15 new cardinals Sunday, selecting them from 14 nations, including far-flung corners of the world such as Tonga, New Zealand, Cape Verde and Myanmar, to reflect the diversity of the church and its growth in places like Asia and Africa..

Other cardinals hail from Ethiopia, Thailand and Vietnam. Another is form Sicily, where the Church in recent decades has been galvanizing public rejection of the Mafia.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/04/pope-new-cardinals_n_6412400.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

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