Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-18
Eight of 10 New Cardinals to Receive
Red Hats From Pope on March 19

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pointed 10 new cardinals TO-
day. increasing the Sacred Col
lege to a historic high Of 81
princes of the Roman Catholic
Church.
st~The college was depleted to
n from the previous high Of IS
by three recent deaths. The
Ppntiff Is believed to have en-
Iarged the college to strengthen
It for the heavy burden of
york ahead, including the Ecu
ntenical Council opening Oc-
tober IL.
None of the 10 cardinals
designate is from the United
States. The number Of United
States Cardinals was reduced to
five this week with the death
Of Aloisius Cardinal Muench.
Three of the new cardinals
are Italians, and two are South
Americans. The others were
Irish. Spanish, Portuguese,
Belgian and Syrian.
Eight Of them will receive
the red biretta of their princely
rank from Pope John in a
secret consistory March 10, the
feast of St. Joseph. Two others.
apostolic nuncios in Spain ana
Portugal, are expected to re-
ceive their birettas from the
heads of state Of those two
countries, according to ancient
custom.
Two days later, in a glitter
ing public consistory that likely
will be held in St. Peters b.
silica, they will receive the
broad-brimmed, golden-tasseled
hat or galero, the special en-
blem of their cardinal rank.
New Prelates Listed
The prelates designated to-
day are:
Archbishop Juan LandaZuri
Ricketts,, 48, Of Lima, Peru.
Archbishop Raul Silva Hen
riquez, 81. of Santiago, Chile.
Archbishop Jeo Jozef Sue
mems, 81, of Malines-Brussels.
Father Michael Browne, IA.
Irish-born master general of
the Order of Preachers. also
known as the Dominicans.
Msgr. Jose da Costa Nunes,
81, Portuguese, vice chamber
lain Of the Holy Roman
Church.
Msgr. Giovanni Panico, 66,
Italian, nuncio to Portugal.
Msgr. Efrem Forni, y, Ital-
ian, nuncio to Belgium.
Msgr. Ildebrando Antoniutti,
70. Italian. nuncio to Spain.
Msgr. Gabrielle Acacio Cous-
sa, 81, Syrian, pro-secretary of
the Vatican Oriental Congre-
cation.
Abbot Anselmo Albareda, 10,
Spaniard, project of the Vatican
library and a member Of the
Benedictine Order,
The March 10 consistory will
be the fifth called by Pope John
for creation of cardinals, an in
dication Of his speedy action in
maintaining membership in the
Senate body of the church.
Pope Names 81 Prelates
The new consistory will bring
the total number Of cardinals
that he has created to 52-just
four less than the late Pope
Plus XII named in a reign OF
nearly 20 years.
In addition, Pope John an
nounced at the March %, 1860,
eonsistory he had three cardi-
nails Sin pectore"-in his breast,
or heart, whose names are kept
secret for the time being.
When their names are made
known, they will be considered
to have been cardinals from
the date of the 1860 consistory.
They are generally believed to
be prelates in Communist-ruled
lands who would be endangered
if their cardinal rank were re-
vealed.
The College of Cardinals,
after the new consistory, will
have 80 Italian cardinals and
81 of other nationalities. It will
maintain the Italian minority
in the college first established
by the late Pope Plus XII in
his great postwar consistory of
1916, when only four of 80 new
cardinals-the highest number
ever named at a single con-
sistory were Italians.
Broad Representation
That dropped the Italians to
a minority in the college for
the first time since the 14th
century. Since then, the college
has been constantly given
broader representation, re-
flecting the worldwide expan.
sion of the Roman Catholic
Church, which now has nearly
half a billion members.
In his March, 1860, con-
sistory-when he brought the
college to IS for the first time
Pope John created the first
japanese, first Filipino and
first Negro cardinals. That
gave the college representation
Of the four major races OF
mankind for the first time in
history.
Pope John was believed tc
have been prompted to call the
new conslstory to bulwark the
college for the Forthcoming
ecumenical or worldwide -
council of the Roman Catholic
Church, which is expected tt
give new impetus to the worlc
movement for Christian unity
With the elevation of the II
new cardinals, the college rep
resentation by countries will be
Italy 80, France 8, Spain 6
United States 5, Germany 3
Brazil 3, England 2, Argentine
2, Canada 2. Ireland 2, Portu'
gal 2. Syria 2, and one eacl