During this morning’s Angelus following Mass celebrating the Feast of the Epiphany, Pope Benedict XVI announced that a consistory will be held between February 18th in Rome. Below is the full list of 22 Cardinal-designates:

• Italian Archbishop Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, 65
• Portuguese Archbishop Manuel Monteiro de Castro, major penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary, 73
• Spanish Archbishop Santos Abril Castello, archpriest of Basilica of St. Mary Major, 76
• Italian Archbishop Antonio Maria Veglio, president Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers, 73
• Italian Archbishop Giuseppe Bertello, president of the commission governing Vatican City State, 69
• Italian Archbishop Francesco Coccopalmerio, president of the Pontifical Council for Interpreting Legislative Texts, 73
• Brazilian Archbishop Joao Braz de Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, 64
• U.S. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, 72
• Italian Archbishop Domenico Calcagno, president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See, 68
• Italian Archbishop Giuseppe Versaldi, president of Prefecture of the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, 68
• Syro-Malabar Archbishop George Alencherry of India, 66Canadian Archbishop Thomas C. Collins of Toronto, 64
• Czech Archbishop Dominik Duka of Prague, 68
• Dutch Archbishop Willem J. Eijk of Utrecht, 58
• Italian Archbishop Giuseppe Betori of Florence, 64
• U.S. Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York, 61
• German Archbishop Rainer Maria Woelki of Berlin, 55
• Chinese Bishop John Tong Hon of Hong Kong, 72
• Romanian Archbishop Lucian Muresan of Fagaras and Alba Julia, 80
• Belgian Father Julien Ries, expert on history of religions, 91
• Maltese Augustinian Father Prosper Grech, biblical scholar, 86
• German Jesuit Father Karl Josef Becker, theologian, 83

Congratulations to all of the Cardinal-designates, especially Timothy Cardinal Dolan and Edwin Cardinal O’Brien.

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I apologize for the lack of posts over the last few days. There is not much ecclesial news happening around these parts. When the Pope goes on vacation for the summer the Catholic news cycle slows down quite dramatically.

The most interesting tid-bit that has emerged within the last week is the Vatican’s release of modifications to the norms on grave crimes against the church. The official notice from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith stated:

[T]he Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith…held it necessary to proceed with a reform of the [Normae de gravioribus delictis], emending it not in its entirety, but only in certain areas, in order to render the text more useful.

The most significant adjustments within the document come in response to two particular offenses: the molestation of minors by priests and the ordination of women.