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consistory

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as in synod

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Recent Examples of consistory Since his election in 2013, Francis has held 10 consistories – special assemblies of the College of Cardinals – appointing a majority of the cardinals under 80 years old who will be eligible to elect his successor. —

Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2025 Last year, Pope Francis elevated Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, California, to cardinal during his August consistory. —

Teddy Grant, ABC News, 9 July 2023 If Francis chooses to resign during the August consistory, that consistory would automatically become a conclave, with the cardinal-electors locked in the Sistine Chapel until a new pope has been chosen. —

Grayson Quay, The Week, 7 June 2022 In recent days, some Italian and international news reports have suggested that the pope’s abdication could be at hand — a theory based less on hard evidence than on eyebrow-raising over a series of unusual events slated for late August, starting with the consistory. —

Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 7 June 2022 Calling a major consistory in late August to create new cardinals, gathering churchmen for two days of talks on implementing his reform and making a symbolically significant pastoral visit suggests Francis might have out-of-the-ordinary business in mind. —

Nicole Winfield, ajc, 5 June 2022 The visit was announced following another move that raised questions: Francis' decision to call a consistory for Aug. 27 to create 21 new cardinals — 16 of whom would be eligible to vote on who will decide on his replacement, according to The Washington Post. —

Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com, 4 July 2022 Van Looy had been one of 21 individuals Francis selected for the honor, a move that will be formalized — for the other 20 — during a consistory in August. —

Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 17 June 2022 After the consistory, those from Europe will account for 42% of the College of Cardinals, compared to 52% in 2013, when Francis’ pontificate began. —

Frances D'emilio, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2022

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At previous synods, women were only allowed more marginal roles of observers or experts, literally seated in the last row of the audience hall while the bishops and cardinals took the front rows and voted.

— Nicole Winfield and Trisha Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
In the Polish Pope’s world view, anti-Communism and traditionalism were inextricably combined; for him, renewal had spread out of control, and the regional synods were part of the problem.

— Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023