NY Archbishop Dolan Elevated as Pope Names New Cardinals
Pope Benedict XVI named 22 new cardinals on Friday, including Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York, in a set of appointments that reflected the pope’s reliance on Italians and Vatican insiders at a time when the church’s population base has shifted to the Southern Hemisphere.
The elevation of Archbishop Dolan to cardinal, which will become official at a Vatican ceremony next month, is the culmination of the 61-year-old’s rapid rise through the ranks, cementing his role as a leading voice of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States and signaling the Vatican’s continuing embrace of his genial, conservative style.
Archbishop Dolan is well known at the Vatican, having overseen the main North American seminary in Rome. And church scholars were struck that many of the new group of cardinals were working at the Vatican or headed Italian dioceses, reversing a trend in which Popes Paul VI and John Paul II had sought to appoint more cardinals from Latin America, Africa and Asia, areas where two-thirds of the world’s Catholics now live.
“What this means is there will continue to be this obvious disjunction between the Catholic Church on the ground and the Catholic Church at the top,” said John L. Allen Jr., an author and a correspondent for The National Catholic Reporter, a weekly newspaper.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/07/nyregion/turn-to-insiders-as-pope-selects-new-cardinals.html
This puts Dolan in consideration as a future pope, though it's more likely he'll just get a vote.
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