The School of Cardinals contains 17 members from america. However solely 10 of these are cardinal electors, which means that they’re allowed to take part within the conclave and vote for the subsequent pope. The opposite seven are older than 80, the cutoff to be an elector.
Six of the ten cardinals had been elevated to the place by Pope Francis and are largely often known as vocal supporters of his priorities, notably on immigration, the surroundings and poverty. This will probably be their first conclave:
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Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, 76. Born in Nebraska, he was a bishop in South Dakota and an archbishop in Spokane, Wash. His appointment to Chicago in 2014 was considered one of Pope Francis’ early strikes to reshape U.S. church management, notably to point out assist for immigrants. Cardinal Cupich’s archdiocese covers about two million Catholics in Cook dinner and Lake Counties.
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Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of Washington, 71. The previous bishop of San Diego is thought for commonly talking out on behalf of migrants, ladies and L.G.B.T.Q. individuals within the church and america. He has said that the Trump administration’s plans for a “wider, indiscriminate, large deportation throughout the nation” could be “incompatible with Catholic doctrine.”
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Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, 73. Earlier than coming to Newark, he led the archdiocese of Indianapolis (the place he bench-pressed 225 kilos on the gymnasium). As a younger priest, he ministered to individuals with AIDS in Chicago. He has said that he doesn’t see “a compelling theological cause why the pope couldn’t title a girl cardinal.”
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Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, archbishop emeritus of Washington, 77. The first African-American cardinal, he was president of america Catholic bishops’ convention in 2002 and pushed to move the Dallas Charter, which instituted a zero-tolerance coverage for sexual abuse of minors. Later the archbishop of Atlanta, he supported L.G.B.T. Catholics and commissioned an motion plan after Francis’ encyclical on the surroundings.
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Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Household and Life, 77. The Irish-American was previously bishop of Dallas. Pope Francis made him the camerlengo, or chamberlain, the Vatican’s performing administrator when a pope dies or resigns. He was chargeable for verifying Pope Francis’ demise.
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Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, 69. A Chicago-born priest, he suggested the pope on bishop appointments all over the world. He’s additionally a member of the Order of Saint Augustine, a spiritual order of women and men who observe the teachings of the fourth-century saint. Cardinal Prevost can be seen by some as a contender for pope, although an extended shot. (There has by no means been an American pontiff.)
4 different cardinals had been elevated by Pope Benedict XVI. Additionally they participated within the 2013 conclave that elected Pope Francis:
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Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, archbishop emeritus of Galveston-Houston, 75. He led the archdiocese of 1.7 million Catholics for 19 years, till Pope Francis accepted his resignation in January. He spoke out towards separating youngsters from their mother and father on the border throughout President Trump’s first time period, calling it “immoral.” He’s additionally a former president of america Catholic bishops’ convention.
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Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, 75. The chief of New York’s 2.5 million Catholics since 2009, he was beforehand the archbishop of Milwaukee and rector of the Pontifical North American School, a seminary in Rome. He’s a favorite of center-right Catholics on points like abortion, and fought the Obama administration’s rule requiring some spiritual teams to supply contraception for workers. He led prayers at each of President Trump’s inaugurations.
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Cardinal James M. Harvey, archpriest of the Basilica of St. Paul Exterior the Partitions, 75. Born in Milwaukee, he has spent many years in roles on the Vatican, together with being in command of the papal family underneath Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. The Basilica the place he presides in Rome is the place many imagine St. Paul is buried.
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Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, patron of the Order of Malta, 76. A canon legislation scholar, he has turn out to be a conservative superstar, the de facto chief of the opposition to Pope Francis’ agenda and a traditionalist with an affinity for the Latin Mass. The pope had eliminated him from management positions. “I’m referred to as the enemy of the pope, which I’m not,” Cardinal Burke said in 2019.
