thereby raising the membership of the Sacred College of Cardinals to 86. Two of the new red hats go to South Americans, one to an Italian and one to an American,* Archbishop Joseph Elmer Ritter ...

S. four,* South America one.†England has only two.** Belgium desires a successor to the red hat of the late Cardinal Mercier. Yet the Sacred College was practically “full” with 65 ...

received his red hat, along with 20 others, during a consistory at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. It was the pope’s 10th consistory to create new cardinals from six continents during his ...