New cardinals react as they are greeted by friends and family

Описание: (28 Jun 2018) Pope Francis gave the Catholic Church 14 new cardinals on Thursday, with many of the choices reflecting his determination that the church be known for tireless attention to those on society's margins.
He also turned his attention to countries located far from the Vatican after centuries of European dominance of the ranks of cardinals, honouring churchmen from Peru, Madagascar and Japan, which has a tiny minority of Catholics.
Among those receiving the cardinals' biretta - a crimson-red square cap with three ridges - was Peru's new cardinal, Huancayo Archbishop Pedro Barreto Jimeno, a Jesuit like Pope Francis.
Speaking to reporters inside the Vatican Paul VI Hall during a post-ceremony reception, Baretto Jimeno said that the "social exclusion" of migrants is an issue "all must address."
The cardinal also stressed that humanity is at stake when people, especially women, are mistreated.
With Thursday's ceremony, there are now 226 cardinals worldwide, 74 of them named by Francis during his 5-year-old papacy.
Of that total, 125 cardinals are younger than 80 and can vote in a conclave for the next pope when the current pope dies or resigns: 59 of them appointed by Francis, 47 by Pope Benedict XVI, his predecessor, and 19 named by Pope John Paul II.
Three of those named Thursday are too old to participate in selecting the next pope.
In his homily, Francis told the new cardinals to avoid the "quest of honors, jealousy, envy, intrigue, accommodation and compromise."
Other new cardinals include:
Monsignor Antonio dos Santos Marto, bishop of Leiria-Fatima, which includes Portugal's popular shrine town;
Monsignor Desire Tsarahazana, archbishop of Toamasina, Madagascar;
Monsignor Thomas Aquinas Manyo, who was bishop of Hiroshima before Francis made him archbishop of Osaka, Japan;
Monsignor Luis Ladaria, a Spanish theologian who heads the powerful Vatican office in charge of ensuring doctrinal orthodoxy;
Monsignor Giovanni Angelo Becciu, an Italian whose diplomatic career includes serving as ambassador to Cuba;
Monsignor Angelo De Donatis, the Rome vicar general;
The three new prelates too old to vote in a conclave included Sergio Obeso Rivera, Emeritus Archbishop of Xalapa, Mexico; Spanish priest Aquilino Bocos Merino; and Bolivian Monsignor Toribio Ticona Porco.

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