Mgr. Heard leaves hospital for ceremonies

8 NEW CARDINALS
THERE MAY BE
MORE
SOON
WITH ceremonies 'which began on Monday in the Consistorial Hall at the Vatican and ended in St. Peter's Basilica. yesterday (Thursday). Pope John XXIII, in the second series of consistories of his one-year reign, raised the Sacred College of Cardinals to 79 members: the highest in the history of the Church.
The eight new Cardinals named, include Britain's second, Scots born Mgr. Theodore Heard, Dean of the Rota. There are three Italians : Cardinal Marella, Papal Nuncio to France —who (it is reported) was to receive his red biretta from President de Gaulle on Wednesday; Cardinal Testa, Papal Nuncio to Switzerland; and Cardinal Moran°, Secretary of the Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature.
A HINT
Two Americans are included. They are. Cardinal Muench. Nuncio in Bonn, and Cardinal Meyer, Archbishop of Chicago. Cardinal Larraona, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Religious, a Spaniard became the first Claretian Cardinal; the eighth is Cardinal Bea, S.J., a German and for many years confessor to the late Pope Pius XII.
In a general audience attended by some 5.000 pilgrims on Wednesday afternoon, the Pope hinted that there might be more Cardinals: "The Cardinals ought to be 70 by tradition," he said, and added: "but the Church goes on, it is widening ever more, so the number of Cardinals has risen to nearly 80, and so we will go on ..."
Cardinal Heard, who is 75 and recovering from a serious operation, was allowed by his doctors to leave hospital in order to receive his Inglietto (document of appointment) at the Chancery Palace on condition that he returned after the ceremony.
RED HATS
Yesterday (Thursday) at a public consistory in St Peter's, seven of the new Cardinals were due to receive their large red hats—which are never worn but placed over their tombs when they die. On Wednesday evening the seven received their red birettas at the hands of the Holy Father in a ceremony in the same hall as Monday's private consistory, the Consistorial Hall.
In his address to the secret consistory the Pope first set forth the counsels that had guided him in the choice of the new Cardinals, and then outlined in brief the joys. hopes, fears and sorrows of the first year of his pontificate.
Among the happy events he cited the many visits by pilgrims and by chiefs of state; among the sorrowful he listed the recent disastrous floods, the spreading practice of birth control. the problem of human hunger. and the heartbreaking conditions in which refugees and exiles are still forced to live.
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
THE Pope will celebrate. Mid
night Mass in the Pauline Chapel of the Vatican for members of the Diplomatic Corps. On Christmas morning he will celebrate Mass in St. Peter's it 10 a.m. G.M.T.
Vatican radio, Radio Hilversum, Radio Eireann and other radio stations in many parts of the world will be relaying the Christmas Message and Papal Blessing of Pope John XXIII which, as announced last week, will be given at 11 a.m. G.M.T. on Wednesday.
Details of this and other Christmas broadcasts—including Midnight Mass on B.B.C. Television, from Austria, are given on page 5.