Friday, March 8, 2013

Day four of preparations, the evening

The sixth General Congregation of the College of Cardinals took place yesterday afternoon, Thursday 7 March, from 5:00pm until 7:00pm local time in Rome.

His Em., Adam Card. Maida
Two newly arrived cardinals were sworn in: Cardinal Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh Mân, Metropolitan Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (Cardinal elector) and Cardinal Adam Joseph Maida, Archbishop Emeritus of Detroit, Michigan, USA (non elector). The entire complement of 115 Cardinal electors who were expected has thus arrived.

The cardinals’ interventions continued. Sixteen cardinals spoke.

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