Rosales set to leave for Rome Monday

Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales is set to leave the country on Monday for Rome where he will participate in the consistory called by Pope Benedict XVI. New members of the College of Cardinals will be named in the Rome gathering, Rosales said in an interview Saturday. Rosales said the new members of the College of Cardinals will also have the privilege of electing the Pope’s successor. “Actually [I’m leaving] the day after tomorrow. The Holy Father just called for a consistory, for the creation of new set of cardinals that will help the [Pope] in the administration of the Church," Rosales told the Catholic-run Radio Veritas 846. Although the Pontiff already announced the names of those elevated to the cardinalship last October 17, the new cardinals will receive their titles, red hats and rings of office at a ceremony on November 24. To be elevated to the cardinalship are Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches; Archbishop John Patrick Foley, Pro-Grand Master of the Knights of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem; Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, President of the Pontifical Commission and of the Governorate of Vatican City State; Archbishop Paul Joseph Cordes, President of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum"; Archbishop Angelo Comastri, Archpriest of the Vatican Basilica, Vicar General for Vatican City State and President of the Fabric of St Peter; Archbishop Stanisław Ryłko, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity; Archbishop Raffaele Farina, S.D.B., Archivist and Librarian of Holy Roman Church; Archbishop Agustín Garcia-Gasco Vicente of Valencia, Spain; Archbishop Sean Baptist Brady of Armagh, Ireland; Archbishop Lluís Martínez Sistach of Barcelona, Spain; Archbishop André Vingt-Trois of Paris, France; Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco of Genoa, Italy; Archbishop Théodore-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, USA; Archbishop Odilo Pedro Scherer of São Paulo, Brazil; Archbishop John Njue of Nairobi, Kenya among others. In March 2006, Cardinal Rosales was formally invested of his cardinal’s red hat and ring. His formal investiture took place a month after the Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines Archbishop Antonio Franco announced to the faithful the news of Rosales’s elevation to the cardinalship. - GMANews.TV