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Vol 30 No 4 July 2018
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Credible leadership serves others, Pope tells cardinals at consistory
New Cardinal Luis Ladaria, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, receives his red biretta from Pope Francis during a consistory to create 14 new cardinals VATICAN CITY — Defending – while the choirs sang, “Tu es Petrus” the world become a more “dignified” great among you must be your servant”. the weak or hopeless and becoming a (You are Peter). place for all people, the patriarch said. What good is it, the Pope asked, servant to those most in need is the best Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Being made a cardinal, he noted, was to “gain the whole world if we are promotion one can ever receive, Pope I Sako of Baghdad approached a not a prize or a personal honour, but an corroded within” or “living in a stifling Francis told new and old cardinals. microphone to give thanks on behalf invitation to live out one’s mission more atmosphere of intrigues that dry up “None of us must feel ‘superior’ to of all the new cardinals who have been firmly dedicated to “the very end,” even our hearts and impede our mission,” anyone. None of us should look down “called to serve the church and all people to give one’s life, as symbolised by the including those “palace intrigues” in at others from above. The only time with an even greater love”. cardinal’s colour of red. curial offices. we can look at a person in this way is The 69-year-old patriarch, whose Their mission, the Pope said in his “But it shall not be so among you,” when we are helping them to stand up,” country has lost an estimated 1 million of homily, is to remember to stay focused the Lord says, because their eyes, heart he said during a ceremony in which he what had been 1.5 million Christians over on Christ, who always ministered and and resources must be dedicated “to the elevated 14 bishops and archbishops the years of war, violence by extremist led the way, unperturbed by his disciples’ only thing that counts: the mission,” the from 11 different nations to the College militants and economic insecurity, infighting, jealousies, failings and Pope said. of Cardinals on 28 June. thanked the Pope for his special attention compromises. Personal conversion and church The formal ceremony in St Peter’s to the plight and struggle of “the tiny On the road to Jerusalem, as the reform are always missionary, he said, Basilica began with Pope Francis, flock” of Christians throughout the disciples were locked in “useless and which demands that looking out for wearing a mitre and carrying a pastoral Middle East. petty discussions,” Jesus walks ahead and protecting one’s own interests staff of retired Pope Benedict XVI, “We pray and hope that your efforts to yet tells them forcefully, when it comes be stopped, so that looking out for leading a procession of the soon-to- promote peace will change the hearts of to lording authority over others, “it shall and protecting what God cares about be cardinals – in their new red robes men and women for the better” and help not be so among you; whoever would be remains at the fore. • Continued on p8 Visit us at http://www.todayscatholic.com.my
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