Among the new cardinals, 16 are below 80 having the right to vote in a conclave. All of them are strenuous Francis followers.
After this consistory, Francis will have named 83 of the 132 voting Cardinals. 87 votes are enough to pick the next pope.
As done previously, Francis bypassed important archdioceses. He named the homosexualist McElroy of San Diego, a suffragan diocese of Los Angeles whose archbishop José Gomez was passed over. In Nigeria Francis chose Ekwulobia Bishop Okpaleke over Abuja Archbishop Kaigama, and in Italy Como Bishop Cantoni over Milan Archbishop Delpini.
Francis prefers to choose weak and compromised figures like Cantoni and McElroy who will not put him in the shadow. McElroy, for instance, a McCarrick favourite knew about McCarrick’s abuses. If the oligarchs' media were honest about "abuses," they could easily stop McElroy from becoming a Cardinal.
Of the seven Cardinal electors from the USA - the biggest number in history - five are homosexualists: Cupich, Tobin …More