TEN NEW CARDINALS

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FR. MICHAEI. BROWNE, 0.P., Irish-born Master General of the Dominicans.
ABBOT ANSELMO ALBAREDA, 0.S.B., Prefect of the Vatican Library (a Spaniard).
During his pontificate. Pope John has named 52 Cardinals. including the new ones. Four of the 52 have died. including Cardinal Muench, the only American Cardinal to serve actively on the Vatican Curia, who died only two days before the latest a ppointments.
The five religious orders represented in these are the Franciscans. Dominicans, Benedictines, Salesians and Basilians.
Cardinal-designate Ovum will be the third Eastern Rite member of the College of Cardinals. The other two are Cardinal Agagianian (Armenian-Rite Prefect of the Sacred Congregation de Propaitanda Fide), and Cardinal Tappouni (Syrian-Rite Patriarch of Antioch).
More?
The new total of 87 may go higher. In March, 1960, Pope John announced that he had named three Cardinals in petto. That meant that he had raised three clerics to cardinalitial rank, but was reserving their names for publication later. It is still not known who these three were. It has not been stated that they are among the newly-appointed ten.
Including the Cardinals-designate there arc no members from 32 countries in the Sacied College: Italy. 30; France, 8; Spain, 6; United States, 5; Germany and Brazil. 3 each. There are two each from Great Britain. Canada, Argentina. Ireland. and Portugal.
The following have one each: Armenia, Australia. Austria. Belgium. Chile. China. Colombia. Cuba. Ecuador, Hungary. India. Japan. Lebanon. Mexico, Netherlands, Peru. Philippines. Poland, Syria, Tanganyika , U ruguay. Venezuela.
Language groups now represented in the Sacred College will include Armenian, Chinese, Japanese. Kihaya (Cardinal Rugambwa), and Tagalog (the language of the Philippine Cardinal Santos).
In addition to the five religious bodies represented in the new appointments. five others are represented in the whole of the Sacred College: the Society of the
Divine Word (Cardinal Tien), the SuIpicians (Cardinal Leger), the Claretians (Cardinal Larraona), the Jesuits (Cardinal Beal FR. MICHAEL BROWNE, 0.P., Master-General of the Dominican Order, is a native of Tipperary. He is the first Irish Dominican to be named for the Red Hat and probably the first Irish-born member of a religious order to become a Cardinal.
He was, too, the first Irishman to he appointed Master of the Sacred Palace. a post known informally as "the Pope's theologian". It dates back to the 13th century and is always held by a Dominican.
Theologian
One of the Church's leading theologians. Fr. Browne is a member of the Roman Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, a Consultor of several Roman Coneregations. and a member of the Central Preparatory Commission for the Second Vatican Council.
In 1957 he visited the Dominican houses in Poland and was the first head of a religious order to travel to that country since the Communists ook over in 1945.
Born in 1887, in Grangemockler, he studied at Rockwell. Tallaght, Friebourg and Rome.
Ordained in 1910. he taught at the Angelicum. the Dominican university in Rome, where. in 1932. at the age of 45, he became Rector Magnificus. It was in 1951 that Pope Pius XII made him Master of the Sacred Palace. He was at one time Prior of San Clemente. the Dorninican house in Rome, where he continued to hear confessions long ifter promotion had taken him to ether posts.
Tall. massively built. prudent and paternal. he has been spiritual father to generations of students. priests and nuns.
ARCHBISHOP H EN R IQUEZ, of Santiago. Chile, is a Salesian. Born in 1907, he studied at Turin and was ordained in 1938. From 1944 to 1959 he was Rector of various Salesian houses in Santiago where he became President of the Congress of Religious and of the National Association, known as
Caritas Chile, whose object is the formation of youth in the sanctity of the Christian family.
He became Bishop of Valparaiso in 1959 and was translated to Santiago last year.
Former Salesian Cardinals were Cardinal Cagliero, one of Don Bosco's pupils, and Cardinal Augustus Fllond, the late Primate of Poland.
ARCHBISHOP COUSSA, 64year-old Pro-Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church, is a Syrian, and a leading authority on Canon I.aw. After joining the Melkite Basilians at Aleppo. he studied at the Pontifical Greek College in Rome and later at Einsiedeln, Switzerland.
Ordained in 1920, he worked in the Lebanon in charge of his order's scholasticate, in 1931 was appointed Delensor Vinci& in the Sacred Roman Rota, and then became professor of Oriental Canon Law at the Pontifical Institute of Canon and Civil Law.
In the 'thirties he became Consultor to the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church, a professor of Canon Law at the Lateran University, and in 1946 became Secretary to the Pontifical Commission for the authentic interpretation of Canon Law.
ARCHBISHOP PANIC() was for 13 years Apostolic Delegate to Australia (1935-48) and also to Canada (1953-1959).