Out Come the RED Hats

Unfortunately Archbishop Diarmuid Martin was not one of them, but instead Archbishop Sean Brady of Armagh, the Primate of Ireland.

Here is the complete list of the new class of the 23 princes of the Church in order. They are seperated into cardinal electors who are under 80 years of age and those who will be ineligible to vote because of age:

Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, the former sositituto who is now prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches;

Archbishop John Patrick Foley, the longtime president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, now serving as grandmaster of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre;

Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, the Vatican's former Secretary for Relations with States, now the president of the Vatican City governoratel;

Archbishop Paul Josef Cordes, the president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum;

Archbishop Angelo Comastri, the archpriest of St. Peter's basilica and vicar general for Vatican City;

Archbishop Stanislaw Rylko, the president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity;

Archbishop Raffaele Farina, the Vatican archivist;

Archbishop Agustin Garcia-Gasco Vicente of Valencia, Spain;

Archbishop Sean Baptist Brady of Armagh, Ireland;

Archbishop Lluis Martinez Sistach of Barcelona, Spain;

Archbishop Andre Vingt-Trois of Paris, France;

Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco of Genoa, Italy;

Archbishop Theodore-Adrien Sarr of Dakar, Senegal;

Archbishop Oswald Gracias of Bombay, India;

Archbishop Francisco Robles Ortega of Monterrey, Mexico;

Archbishop Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, US;

Archbishop Odilio Pedro Scherer of Sao Paulo, Brazil;

Archbishop John Njue of Nairobi, Kenya

And these are the 5 who are over 80 years of age:

Father Umberto Betti, the former rector of the Pontifical Lateran University;

Archbishop Giovanni Coppa, a veteran Vatican diplomat;

Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly of Babylon, the head of Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Church;

Archbishop Estanislao Esteban Karlic, the former Archbishop of Parana, Argentina;

Father Urbano Navarrete, the former rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University.

Of the above, it will be interesting to meet Cardinal-elect Andre Vingt Trois again, as I met him last Christmas in Paris while he was still Archbishop Vingt Trois and hope to see him again this Christmas, as Andre Cardinal Vingt Trois.