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Cardinal

Cardinal meaning

Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal. | Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west). | Describing a “natural” number used to indicate quantity (e.g., zero, one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.

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The new cardinals included Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem; Cardinal Stephen Chow of Hong Kong; and Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

College and orders of cardinalate Pope Sixtus V limited the number of cardinals to 70, comprising six cardinal bishops, 50 cardinal priests, and 14 cardinal deacons.

Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, a Portuguese cardinal who was the prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints from 1998 to 2008, knew Lucia personally during the last few years of her life.

Cardinal Ladaria was made a cardinal in a June 2018 consistory.

Cardinal McElroy was also appointed to the planetary stage of the synod by the Holy Father, having failed to get elected, like Cardinal Cupich, by his brother bishops.

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM looks on after being elevated to the rank of cardinal at the Vatican, September 30, 2023.

Common cardinal flower has rich cardinal red bloom and bright green foliage.

In other Cardinal Health news, CEO sold 36,642 shares of Cardinal Health stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, November 27th.

Participants will attend Mass on Friday and Saturday, celebrated by Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost and Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, respectively.

Cardinal Becciu was as the height of his power as the sostituto, the pontiff’s Chief of Staff, having wrested control of the Vatican’s financial reform away from Cardinal Pell and centralizing it largely in his own hands.

Cardinal interprets this to mean that Shandong Gold will not increase its offer price for Cardinal (currently $1.00 per share) (“) unless Nord Gold S.E (“”) (or anyone else) increases its offer above $1.00 or announces an intention to do so.

In addition to Cardinal-designate Gregory, Pope Francis chose as cardinal electors two officials of the Roman Curia and Bishops from Italy, Rwanda, Brunei, Chile, and the Philippines.

It’s one of the cardinal rules of Pullman’s fictional universe that your daemon must remain physically close to you, but like most cardinal rules in most universes this one occasionally gets broken.

Maybe, Chicago cardinal saysJust hours after Pope Francis declared the death penalty “inadmissible” in all cases, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago urged elected officials and leaders.

Current U.S. members of the Congregation are Cardinal William J. Levada, Prefect Emeritus of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington.

Mr. Cardinal represents the high school at local events with co-royalty Miss Cardinal City.

Pope Francis, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago and Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India, attend the second day of the meeting on the protection of minors in the church, at the Vatican Feb. 22, 2019.

The pope set Cardinal George Pell to the task of reforming some elements of that culture, but well before Pell returned to Australia in 2017 to face abuse charges, the cardinal’s efforts had begun to seem Sisyphean.

A Catholic high school named after Cardinal Donald Wuerl was vandalized Monday, following continued criticism of the cardinal’s handling of sex abuse allegations during his time as bishop of Pittsburgh.

He is the metropolitan archbishop of his ecclesiastical province, a cardinal, and one of two American members of the Congregation for Bishops, along with Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago.