Monday, November 21, 2016

New Venezuelan cardinal says country’s crisis prompted red hat


Venezuelan Archbishop Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo is one of the pope’s picks from the peripheries who got a red hat this weekend, which the new cardinal says is a sign of the Vatican’s concern for the people amid the country’s ongoing crisis.
“The Holy Father has shown a special interest for Venezuela,” Porras told journalists Nov. 15. “I think that never as now, here in the Vatican, have there been senior leaders who have had a direct or close relationship with the reality of Venezuela,” he said, adding that “undoubtedly the situation of the country” is what influenced the Pope’s decision to name him cardinal.More…

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  1. I will like to have Cardinal Porras email. I Trust that he can understand the reality of the country because he is a Venezuelan. He has first hand experience on our dramatic Chavez and post Chavez suffering and pre Chavez also.

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