Notice something missing from this list? Guess no evil capitalists from the U.S. can qualify for a Cardinal from this point on. Except for the occasional token bone thrown our way. Too rich. Of course, the U.S. contributes more money (virtually double) to the Catholic Church than any other country, and without us, the Vatican would be in dire straits. But hey, we’re still capitalist pigs to Pope Francis, with no concern for the poor, doncha know. Pope Francis will be rapidly stacking the deck to guarantee another socialist Pope in the future.
“Notice something missing from this list?”
Not really since the U.S. already has a number of cardinals:
- Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, Roman Curia
• Daniel Nicholas Cardinal DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas
• Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, New York
• Francis Eugene Cardinal George, O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois
• James Michael Cardinal Harvey, Archpriest of the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura {Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls Basilica}, Roman Curia Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}, Roman Curia
• William Joseph Cardinal Levada, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Roman Curia
• Roger Michael Cardinal Mahony, Archbishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, California
• Edwin Frederick Cardinal O’Brien, Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, Roman Curia
• Sean Patrick Cardinal O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts
• Justin Francis Cardinal Rigali, Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Donald William Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia
Brazil has only ten cardinals:
http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/bbr8.html
So, we have more cardinals than the mostly Catholic nation of Brazil. Brazil has almost twice as many Catholics as the USA does.
I don’t like most of the appointments either. One of the other countries that has always been a backbone of the Church, Spain, also got nobody except a very elderly, nonvoting retired bishop. It’s lovely to have more Third World Cardinals, but I don’t think he needed to exclude the others. Chaput should have been made a cardinal, but I think he’s probably too conservative for the Vatican right now. It’s a pity, Francis could’ve appointed the first North American Indian cardinal.