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By FRANCES D'EMILIO, Associated Press Writer
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| A dove is freed from Pope John Paul II's window during
the pontiff's general audience in St. Peter's Square at the
Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2001. Only a week after he named
a record-setting 37 new cardinals, the pope on Sunday announced
even more new princes of the church _ two Germans, a U.S.
citizen from Ukraine, a South African and a Bolivian _ and
two appointments from former Soviet states that he made secretly
in 1998. Person at left unknown. Photo by Plinio Lepri (AP)
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VATICAN CITY
(AP) - Only a week after he named a record-setting 37 new cardinals,
Pope John Paul II on Sunday announced even more new princes of
the church - two Germans, a U.S. citizen from Ukraine, a South
African and a Bolivian - and two appointments from former Soviet
states that he made secretly in 1998.
In a surprise
announcement from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square,
the pope, smiling broadly, read the names but gave no reason why
he hadn't named all of them a week earlier.
The five new
cardinals who will participate in the Feb. 21 consistory ceremony
at the Vatican are: Monsignors Lubomyr Husar, the newly appointed
archbishop of Lviv, Ukraine; Joahannes Joachim Degenhart, archbishop
of Paderborn, Germany; Julio Terrazas Sandoval, archbishop of
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia; Wilfrid Fox Napier, archbishop
of Durban, South Africa, and Karl Lehmann, bishop of Mainz, Germany.
Husar is a
Ukraine native who is a U.S. citizen and who leads the Greek Catholic
church in Ukraine
In the last
consistory ceremony, in 1998, the pope made two cardinals whose
name he didn't reveal, keeping the appointments "in pectore"
- Latin for "in his heart" - possibly because he felt
the times were too sensitive in terms of relations involving Catholics
in the former Soviet Union.
The two churchmen
were Marian Jaworski, archbishop in Lviv of Catholics, many of
them of Polish origin, who follow the Latin rite, and Janis Pujats,
archbishop of Riga.
The announcement
of the two names for Ukraine comes five months before the pope
travels to that formerly Communist-run land despite reported objections
to the visit from some in the Ukrainian Orthodox church.
Speaking of
Husar, recently named to the archbishop's post, as well as the
two "in pectore" cardinals he revealed from parts of
the former Soviet Union, John Paul told the crowd in the square:
"I intend to honor their respective churches, which, especially
in the course of the 20th century, have been severely tried and
which offered to the world the example of so many Christian men
and women, who knew how to pay witness to their faith amidst suffering
of every kind, not rarely culminating in the sacrifice of their
life."
On Jan. 21,
the pope named 37 new cardinals and said he intended to soon announce
the names of the "in pectore" cardinals.
The back-to-back
weekly announcements were a first for this pontificate, which
began in 1978.
In making
all the new cardinals, the pope acknowledged he was breaking the
limit of 120 churchmen eligible to vote in the secret conclave
which will someday elect his successor. The limit was set by a
predecessor, Pope Paul VI.
Putting his
conservative stamp on the College of Cardinals, John Paul has
named all but 10 of those cardinals under age 80 and eligible
to vote for the next pope. With the latest group, there will be
now 135 eligible to vote once the consistory ceremony is held
on Feb. 21.
One of those
named Sunday, Lehmann, the head of the German bishops' conference,
shocked many at the Vatican last year with remarks suggesting
the ailing pope should consider resigning if he could no longer
carry out his mission.
Lehmann promptly
protested that he was misinterpreted, but many observers wrote
him off as a potential cardinal because of the boldness of his
remarks and because he is associated with the German Catholic
church, which tends to be liberal in views on the Vatican's teachings
about divorce and abortion.
There was
no explanation why the pope did not name him in the group a week
earlier.
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