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With Pope Francis to name new cardinals in February, what's at stake?
- Dec 11, 2014
The Catholic Church’s most exclusive club will have new members come February, as the Vatican announced Thursday Pope Francis will hold a consistory to create new cardinals Feb. 14-15. Almost nothing a pope does is as critical to the direction of Catholicism, in part because cardinals are the most influential

By John L. Allen Jr.

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