VATICAN CITY (AP) ? The top U.S. bishop, Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, has told a meeting of the pope and his fellow cardinals that they must spread the faith with joy, love ? and blood if necessary.
Dolan, archbishop of New York, gave the keynote address Friday to a gathering of the cardinals who will participate in the ceremony Saturday to bring Dolan and 21 other cardinals into the elite men's club that will elect the next pope.
Dolan said the Vatican No. 2 had told him to speak about spreading the faith in a secular world since New York was the "capital of a secular culture." Dolan said while there's "graphic secularism" in the Big Apple, "it is also a very religious city."
He said cardinals wear scarlet to show they are willing to shed blood for the faith.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) ? A scandal over leaked documents and reports of political infighting, intrigue and mismanagement in the Vatican's frescoed halls has cast a cloud over this weekend's ceremony to create 22 new princes of the church.
Pope Benedict XVI summoned cardinals new and old for a day of reflection Friday ahead of Saturday's consistory, where the 22 new cardinals will get their red hats and be formally welcomed into the elite men's club that will elect the next pope.
With the 84-year-old German pope slowing down, Saturday's ceremony has taken on the aura of a pre-conclave summit, with the various geographic voting blocs of cardinals ? Italians prime among them ? jockeying for prominence with a view to take back the papacy they haven't had for three decades.
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