VATICAN CITY: POPE PAUL GIVES 24 NEW CARDINALS THEIR RED "BIRETTAS" IN SOLEMN CEREMONY AND UNVEILS MEMORIAL TO POPE JOHN

Record ID: 540199

  • Title: VATICAN CITY: POPE PAUL GIVES 24 NEW CARDINALS THEIR RED "BIRETTAS" IN SOLEMN CEREMONY AND UNVEILS MEMORIAL TO POPE JOHN
  • Date: 28th June 1967
  • Summary: SCENES FROM THE CEREMONY, AND THE UNVEILING OF MEMORIAL TO POPE JOHN. Initials RM/V/RM/SGM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th July 1967 13:00
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  • Location: VATICAN CITY
  • Country: Italy
  • Reuters ID: LVABEL67M599GEGW9909SS9POQNG
  • Story Text: POPE PAUL GAVE 24 NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CARDINALS THEIR RED "BIRETTAS" -- SPECIAL CARDINALS' HATS -- AND THEIR TITLES OF OFFICE IN A SOLEMN CEREMONY IN THE VATICAN CITY, TODAY (WEDNESDAY). THE CEREMONY TOOK PLACE IN THE ELEGANT SISTINE CHAPEL, UNDER THE FADING COLOURS OF MICHELANGELO'S "LAST JUDGEMENT" PAINTING.

    THE POPE CREATED THE NEW CARDINALS, AT A SECRET CONSISTORY LAST MONDAY. AT TODAY'S CEREMONY, HE REASSURED THE NEW CARDINALS THAT THEIR OFFICE HAD NOT LOST ANY OF ITS IMPORTANCE IN THE MODERN CHURCH. THE POPE REJECTED SPECULATION THAT THE NEW SYNOD OF BISHOPS WOULD TAKE OVER SOME OF THE DUTIES OF THE CARDINALS, WHOSE NUMBER HAS NOW RISEN TO A RECORD 118.

    FROM THE SISTINE CHAPEL, THE POPE AND THE CARDINALS WALKED TO THE NEARBY ST. PETER'S BASILICA, WHERE THE POPE UNVEILED AND BLESSED A BRONZE MEMORIAL TO HIS PREDECESSOR, POPE JOHN, WHOSE POPULARITY, HE SAID, HAD "REACHED THE CONFINES OF THE WORLD."
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