Pope to create 23 new cardinals
Agence France-Presse
Last updated 06:21pm (Mla time) 11/24/2007
VATICAN CITY -- Twenty-three new cardinals were to kneel before Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday to accept their birettas -- square red hats -- during a time-honored ceremony inducting them into the elite body that advises and elects popes.
The 23 new "princes of the Church," of whom five are 80 or older and thus ineligible to vote in a papal election, will fill out the ranks of the College of Cardinals to 201, including 120 cardinal-electors.
