cardinals in scarlet robes
Who elects the Pope? Well the cardinals.
I talked to one of the cardinals.
The Pope has a house with cardinals and bishops.
Grosbeaks, thrashers, yellow warblers, bluebirds, vireos, towhees, cardinals-all are at it.
His holiness had an idea. He determined to make two cardinals.
(Roman Catholic Church) the body of cardinals who advise the Pope and elect new Popes.
The Roman Catholic Church has bishops, and cardinals, and the Pope.
The ruler was Pope Benedict XVI and his courtier Angelo Sodano, the dean of the college of cardinals.
Liberal cardinals had suggested that in a marriage where one partner is infected, condoms should be permitted.
Birettas are worn especially by Roman Catholic clergy and are black for priests, purple for bishops, and red for cardinals.
She went to the Villa Doria-Pamphili, majestic and pompous, the fitting summer-house of princes in gorgeous habit, and bishops and cardinals.
However, the Pontiff had been too busy and they had been forced to make do with an audience with one of his cardinals.
He has not and, with similar inertia, has kept in office seven cardinals who, having passed their 75th birthdays, are due for retirement.
Given that it is only since 1917 that ordination has been a requirement for cardinals, might we one day see further changes that bring women into that level of service in the Church?
Once they receive their red hats on November 20th, some 25 of the 120 voting cardinals will be Italians; it looks highly possible that one of them will be chosen to succeed the 83-year-old Benedict.
