With the investiture of the new cardinals, the first Latin American pope in history proposes as a model for the throne of Peter religious who are sensitive and close to social problems, to immigration, who come from distant lands, where the Church is a minority or is growing.
in the list of 16 cardinals under 80 years of age who today became part of the “church government” there are religious from India, Singapore, Mongolia, East Timor.
There are also three Latin Americans: the Archbishop of Brasilia, Paulo Cesar Costa, the Archbishop of Manaus, Leonardo Ulrich, the first cardinal of the Amazon region, and the Archbishop of Asunción, Adalberto Martínez Flores, who became the first cardinal of Paraguay.
Among those over 80 who received the title of cardinal is the Colombian Archbishop Emeritus of Cartagena de Indias, Jorge Enrique Jiménez Carvajal. These new cardinals represent the Church today, with a strong presence in the southern hemisphere, where 80% of Catholics live.
This being the eighth consistory, almost one for each year of the papacy, Francis chose 83 cardinals of the current total of 132 electors, that is almost two thirds (3 out of 5 cardinals were appointed by Bergoglio). A determining figure in the event of the election of the new pope, since a two-thirds majority is precisely required.
True to his line in favor of a less European Church, closer to the forgotten, the pope born in Argentina chose two Africans and five Asians, including two Indians, confirming the rise of that continent.
Among the most notable appointments is that of the American Robert McElroy, bishop of San Diego, California, considered a progressive for his positions on homosexual Catholics and the right to abortion.
Europe remains the most represented continent in the College of Cardinals with 40%, ahead of South America and Asia with 16% each, Africa with 13% and North America with 12%.
The ceremonies and meetings do not end today in the Vatican, the cardinals have been summoned for a parallel and unprecedented two-day meeting on Monday and Tuesday. This is a particular occasion, officially dedicated to the reform of the pontifical Constitution, approved in March and in force since June 5.
This meeting has unleashed all kinds of speculation, in particular about the health of the pope, who underwent colon surgery last year and suffers from pain in his right knee that prevents him from walking normally and forces him to move in a wheelchair. .
Artemide Zatti: the new Argentine saint
An Italian emigrant in Argentina, a nurse in spite of himself, but more popular and requested by the patients of his hospital than any doctor. All this and much more is Artemide Zatti, a new saint, an example of charity.
Artemide arrived from the province of Reggio Emilia, in Italy, when he was only 17 years old, in 1897. His family, like many others, was forced to cross the ocean by hunger, poverty and lack of hope. Installed in Bahía Blanca, he began to attend the local parish run by the Salesians where he met Father Carlo Cavalli, who became his spiritual father and source of inspiration, but above all he was the one who made him perceive the call of the Mister.
In love with the work of Don Bosco, Artemide was about to make his vows at the Salesian house in Bernal when he contracted tuberculosis from a confrere and this ruined all his plans. Don Cavalli then suggested that he pray to Mary Help of Christians, promising her, once healed, to dedicate himself to the sick. Artemide accepted and thus renounced his priestly vocation, going to the Salesian house in Viedma, Río Negro, where he worked as an assistant in the missionary hospital, being a nurse among the poor.
Source: Ambito
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