Vatican Looks Beyond Europe with New Cardinal Nominees

By JEAN-LOUIS DE LA VAISSIERE

November 23, 2012, 12:42pm

 

VATICAN CITY, (AFP) --- Six non-European prelates are set to join the Catholic Church's College of Cardinals on Saturday, a move welcomed by critics concerned that the body which will elect the future pope is too Eurocentric.

Pope Benedict XVI will appoint the new ''Princes of the Church'' during a ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica where they are given red hats and gold rings.

The six, who are from Colombia, India, Lebanon, Nigeria, the Philippines and the United States, could help favour the South within the Church. They join the elite body that advises the pope and elects his successor upon his death.

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