Amid the crowd in St. Peter’s Square, new cardinal hears his name
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — U.S. Cardinal-designate John P. Foley, a Philadelphia native, was standing in the middle of St. Peter’s Square among a sea of 30,000 pilgrims when Pope Benedict XVI named him a cardinal.
Though he knew the previous day he was going to be one of 23 people to receive a red hat, the Oct. 17 announcement was going to fall on the same morning he had a follow-up visit with his eye doctor. Read More