by Anura Guruge
As a rule I usually don’t spend any time trying to determine if there is any rationale as to what title or deaconry is assigned to what newly created cardinal. I just don’t have the time. Last time around, i.e., in November 2010, I just happened to know that they gave a Sicilian-related deaconry, pro hac vice, to Sicilian Cardinal Paolo Romeo, now notorious as the cardinal who talked about the plot to do away with the pope and poor Scola.
This time around, I had a bit more time, so decided to spend a couple of hours seeing what I could find.
It was interesting that there were no pro have vice assignments this time around. 5 new deaconries and 1 new title were established for this 2012 consistory. In reality there wasn’t a need to create any! There were a total of 23 vacancies prior to the consistory and a title can be given, pro hac vice, to a deacon. Nonetheless, the Vatican opted to create 6 new ‘deeds’ — though from what I can see there appears to be not even one instance of a symbolic connection between any of the new ‘deeds’ and who they were assigned to.
Yes, I do know that there is a group in the Vatican that does try to determine possible pertinent connections. And some, from what I can see, are quite neat.
>> U.S. O’Brien got U.S. Foley’s old deaconry — which is very appropriate since he also got Foley’s old office.
>> New Spanish papabile Abril y Castelló got the deaconry previously allocated to Spanish Navarrete Cortés.
>> Same true with that given to Indian Alencherry — previous holder was also Indian.
>> They must like Vegliò in the curia. They gave him the sacred ‘John Paul II‘ title!
>> I could be wrong, but I think the Vatican is having some fun in the case of ‘Next Pope’ Dolan and the American people in General. They gave him a title with Mexican roots. Oh, la, la!
Here is my Spreadsheet:
Click to ENLARGE.
Refer to the ‘Consistory‘ TAB right at the top, above the banner ((↑↑)), for all the requisite links, including those for the February 18, 2012 consistory.
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There has not been a cardinal elected pope who held a title established after 1670. That was Pope Pius X who held the title of Cardinal-Priest of San Bernardo alle Terme. And he was also Patriarch of Venice, Italy. Although Pope Benedict XVI originally held the title of Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Consolatrice al Tiburtino, established in 1969, he was a Cardinal Bishop when elected. Of the 26 popes elected after 1670, 15 held titles est. before 400 AD. The six popes between John Paul II and Pius X all held titles est. before 400 AD. These six only held one title and did not move “up” as Cardinal Ratzinger did.
Does this mean anything? I don’t know, but it is fun.
Brilliant. Assuming you done the homework. Tough audience. I want to put this up as a post on its own.
This is GREAT stuff.
PLEASE send me more.
What name can I use to attribute it to?
Thanks. Anura
Salvador Miranda: “http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/cardinals.htm” and David Cheney: http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org “did all the research. I just charted information from their web sites and a few others onto a spreadsheet. I started when I tried my luck at picking the new cardinals at the last two consistories. I did better at picking the cardinals than their titles.
Carlos B. Valdivia