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19 October 2003
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Jubilee week for Pope
Pope John Paul II is in the midst of perhaps the most demanding week of his 25-year pontificate.
He celebrates the anniversary of his election as pope in 1978, beatifies Mother Teresa of Calcutta and inducts 30 new cardinals, including the Archbishop of Sydney, Dr George Pell.
The anniversary program (beginning on Wednesday, October 15) leads into the consistory of cardinals on Tuesday, October 21.
The first event is Pope John Paul II’s general audience in St Peter’s Square on Wednesday.
The world’s cardinals, heads of bishops’ conferences, heads of Vatican departments and patriarchs will meet later that day for the opening of the Vatican conference marking the Pope’s 25th anniversary.
The Pope is not expected to attend.
However, he will address the cardinals and other Church leaders the following morning and sign his post-synodal exhortation on the ministry of the bishop.
And later - at 6pm - he will celebrate the Mass commemorating the anniversary of his election to the papacy on October 16, 1978.
[In Sydney, Cardinal-designate Dr George Pell, the Archbishop of Sydney, will be the principal celebrant at a thanksgiving Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral at 7pm on Thursday, October 16, to celebrate the Pope’s silver jubilee. The Mass, although organised by the Polish community, is “a celebration for the Catholic people of Sydney”, says Fr Don Richardson, master of ceremonies at St Mary’s Cathedral.]
On the Friday night, the Pope will be the special guest at a concert in the Paul VI audience hall.
He will address and meet conference participants next morning, on the final day of the Vatican
conference, at which a message from the College of Cardinals to the Pope will be read.
The pontiff will then host lunch for the participants.
On the Sunday, October 19, World Mission Sunday, he will celebrate the beatification Mass for Mother Teresa of Calcutta in St Peter’s Square.
The two-day consistory will begin on Tuesday, October 21.
The new cardinals will be formally inducted that day - and presented with their red hats. The Pope is expected to celebrate Mass with the new cardinals the next day, October 22, the 25th anniversary of his first Mass as Pope.
The new cardinals represent 18 countries from all six continents.
The Pope has preserved the name of one new cardinal “in pectore”, (in his heart). In the past, such cardinals have served in places where public knowledge of their appointment might provoke hostility against the Church.
The appointments will bring the total number in the College of Cardinals to 194, a record number of cardinals from 69 countries.
After the last consistory, in 2001, there were 184 cardinals.
As he has done previously, the Pope increased the maximum number of cardinal-electors, aged under 80 and thus eligible to vote in a conclave.
When they accept their “red hats”, the total number of cardinal-electors will be 135 - matching the record high number of 2001. All but five have been named by Pope John Paul II.
The cardinals-designate from the Roman Curia are:
• Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, Vatican secretary for relations with states at the time of the announcement but since retired (home country: France);
• Archbishop Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (Italy);
• Archbishop Francesco Marchisano, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Goods of the Church (Italy);
• Archbishop Julián Herranz of the Prelature of the Opus Dei, president of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts (Spain);
• Archbishop Javier Lozano Barragán, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers (Mexico);
• Archbishop Stephen Fumio Hamao, president of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travellers (Japan);
• Archbishop Attilio Nicora, president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See (Italy).
The 19 archbishops of Sees are:
• Angelo Scola, patriarch of Venice, Italy;
• Anthony Ol-ubunmi Okogie of Lagos, Nigeria;
• Bernard Panafieu of Marseilles, France;
• Gabriel Zubeir Wako of Khartoum, Sudan;
• Carlos Amigo Vallejo of Seville, Spain;
• Justin Francis Rigali of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
• Keith Michael Patrick O’Brien of St Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland;
• Eusebio Oscar Scheid, of Sao Sebastian of Rio de Janeiro;
• Ennio Antonelli of Florence, Italy;
• Tarcisio Bertone of Genoa, Italy;
• Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson of Cape Coast, Ghana;
• Telesphore Placidus Toppo of Ranchi, India;
• George Pell of Sydney, Australia;
• Josip Bozanic of Zagreb, Croatia;
• Jean Baptiste Pham Minh Man of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam;
• Rodolfo Quezada Toruño of Guatemala City;
• Philippe Barbarin of Lyon, France;
• Peter Erdö of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary;
• Marc Ouellet, of Quebec, Canada.
Four of the new cardinals are priests acknowledged for outstanding service:
Swiss-born Dominican Fr Georges Cottier, Papal Household theologian; Mons Gustaaf Joos, canon of the diocese of Gand, Belgium; Jesuit Fr Thomas Spidlik
of the Czech Republic; Fr Stanislas Nagy, of the priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, of Poland.