Who Would You Nominate?

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If the following report is correct - who would you nominate for elevation to the College of Cardinals?

"…According to Italian reports, the 84 year-old pope may call a consistory - the meeting in which new cardinals formally receive their symbols of office - as early as February. It is not known how many new cardinals the pope may create or how they might alter the political balance within the college. But an unexpected consistory so soon after the last would certainly prompt frenzied speculation that the Pope is in a hurry to lay the path for his own exit.

After 26 years at the head of the Roman Catholic church, Karol Wojtyla has outlived more than 50 of the cardinals he has created in nine separate consistories. All but 14 of the cardinals now alive have been created by him…"

guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1384568,00.html
 
First up would be Archbishop O’Malley of Boston. There are some (not me) who would make a case for Archbishop Burke. St. Louis had been a cardinalatial see (except when there was a retired cardinal living or there were too many US cardinals). I was hoping for Cardinal Rigali to get his red hat in St. Louis and stay there.

How 'bout throwing a red hat to Archbishop Dolan of Milwaukee?

John
 
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First up would be Archbishop O’Malley of Boston. There are some (not me) who would make a case for Archbishop Burke. St. Louis had been a cardinalatial see (except when there was a retired cardinal living or there were too many US cardinals). I was hoping for Cardinal Rigali to get his red hat in St. Louis and stay there.

How 'bout throwing a red hat to Archbishop Dolan of Milwaukee?

John
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Too new as archbishop there I think - they will want to see how he works out in the position - especially considering what he inherited. Rigali is a long time Vatican insider with clout where it counts and I know he tussled with the Jesuits in St. Louis which ain’t easy. But I just don’t know - there seems to be some mystery about why after all those years he left Rome to come back to the US and it could well be just to make “cardinal” - they aren’t much for making cardinals these days without pastoral experience unless you head a curial dicastery.

I’d be for Burke, Chaput and O’Malley and all for very different reasons. I think the surprise could be - no new ones for the US at all -
 
The current Cardinal count is down to 121 voting members - with 2 more losing their vote due to age in March. IMO, that makes it likely that we’ll see another consistory in Feb. or maybe in the summer.

It should be noted that of the voting Cardinals, JP2 has named all but 3 (Cardinals Baum, Sin, and Ratzinger).
 
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Archbishop Chaput from Denver.
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He’d be on of my top three; I’d like it for Fessio - for several reasons, not the least of which is it would make a number of Jesuits ticked off and send McBrien into orbit.
 
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