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By FRANCES D'EMILIO, Associated Press Writer
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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