Piedmontese by birth but Sardinian by adoption, Monsignor Arrigo Miglio joins the College of Cardinals. In St. Peter's, in the afternoon, he will receive from Pope Francis, who presides over the Consistory, the purple-red cap, the ring and a parchment with the assignment of the "title", usually on one of the ancient churches in Rome where the prelate he will be called to carry out the pastoral ministry. At the end of the Consistory, in which Cardinal Angelo Becciu will also participate, the assembly will move from the Basilica to the nearby "Aula Nervi", the general audience hall dedicated to St. Paul VI, for the "courtesy visits" of the new cardinals for the exchange of good wishes.
Two "Sardinian" cardinals
«I'm Francesco. You have every right to participate in the Consistory. The look". With this phone call , the Pope opened the way for the full reintegration of the cardinal of Pattada, Angelo Becciu, who this afternoon in San Pietro sits again, two years after his resignation, in the midst of his cardinal confreres.
The embrace between Becciu and Miglio is also that between two Sardinian cardinals, the first by birth, the second by adoption: "I feel quite Sardinian, after my pastoral experiences in Iglesias and Cagliari, even if I don't dare to call myself that", he said the archbishop emeritus, "I prefer to say that I feel Sardinian because I am adopted by you".
First Mass
Monsignor Miglio will celebrate his first Mass as a cardinal in the Roman basilica of San Paolo fuori le Mura on Sunday at noon.
Attention to social problems and the world of work, with its dramas and contradictions, especially in his years spent in Sulcis-Iglesiente, has always characterized the pastoral work of the new Cardinal Miglio.
"I was in front of the TV at the house of friends for the Pope's Angelus when I heard my name among those of the next Consistory," Monsignor Miglio told us in one of the first interviews as a cardinal-elect. “I knew nothing, nor would I ever have imagined. I thought of a mistake and it took me some time to realize what was happening to me ».
The themes
The Consistory which opens today and lasts until Tuesday is decisive for the future of the Church. After the assignment of twenty new purples, the Pope will return to reunite the cardinals on the reform of the Curia still to be implemented, starting with the appointments.
There is an air of great occasions, a sort of pre-conclave with the leading exponents of the Catholic Church called to choose the path of the future and to get to know each other better.
(Unioneonline)
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