POPE FRANCIS TO APPOINT 19 NEW CARDINALS

Pope Francis is to appoint 19 new cardinals next month, including
churchmen from Haiti and Burkina Faso, reflecting his commitment to
the poor.
Cardinals, who wear red hats and robes, are the most senior clergymen
in the Roman Catholic Church below the Pope.Sixteen of the new
appointees are under 80, making them eligible to enter a conclave to
elect the Pope's successor.
The new cardinals will be formally instated at a ceremony, known as a
consistory, on 22 February.
The three clergymen over 80 come from Spain, Italy and the Caribbean
island of St Lucia. They will assume the title cardinal emeritus.
Pope Francis named his new cardinals during his weekly, Sunday address
to worshippers gathered in St Peter's Square.They come from all
corners of the world, including Italy, Germany, Britain, Nicaragua,
Canada, Brazil, Argentina, South Korea, Chile and the Philippines.
As expected, a few of those named are very well-known, established
figures at the Vatican, says the BBC's Alan Johnston in Rome.
But among those chosen are also men from countries like Haiti, Ivory
Coast and Burkina Faso.
The Vatican spokesman said that this was in keeping with the Pope's
drive to put the world's poor at the core of the Church's mission.
The Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols has been named as one
of the new cardinals, and said he was deeply moved by what he called
the honour conferred by the Pope on the Catholic Church in England and
Wales.
"Personally this is a humbling moment," he said.
The 19 new CardinalsArchbishop Pietro Parolin (Italy)
Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri (Italy)
Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller (Germany)
Archbishop, Beniamino Stella (Italy)
Archbishop Vincent Nichols (Britain)
Archbishop Leopoldo José Brenes Solórzano (Nicaragua)
Archbishop Gérald Cyprien Lacroix (Canada)
Archbishop Jean-Pierre Kutwa (Ivory Coast)
Archbishop Orani João Tempesta (Brazil)
Archbishop Gualtiero Bassetti (Italy)
Archbishop Mario Aurelio Poli (Argentina)
Archbishop Andrew Yeom Soo Jung (South Korea)
Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati Andrello (Chile)
Archbishop Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédraogo (Burkina Faso)
Archbishop Orlando B. Quevedo (Philippines)
Archbishop Chibly Langlois (Haiti)
Monsignor Loris Francesco Capovilla (Italy) *
Archbishop Fernando Sebastián Aguilar (Spain) *
Monsignor Kelvin Edward Felix (St Lucia) *
* Cardinal emeritus, without voting rights