The first interactive online resource of its kind, 40 cardinals are profiled in-depth revealing who they are and where they stand on various issues, along with summary profiles of the remaining 200 plus members of the Sacred College including the 21 who received the red hat last week.
Working with an international team of Catholic journalists and researchers, both Vatican journalist Diane Montagna, the project’s executive director, and I have endeavored to provide a fact-based and reliably sourced database of information on the largest and most diverse College of Cardinals in the Church’s history.
The project, created in association with Sophia Institute Press and Cardinalis Magazine, is a response to persistent requests from cardinals and others around the world who have expressed a wish to know more about today’s princes of the Church, any one of whom could become the 267th Successor of Peter.
These requests have arisen mainly because the cardinals have little knowledge of one another, despite our globalized, information age. This is partly because Pope Francis has chosen many new cardinals from lesser known “periphery” locations, but also because, since 2014, regular consistories have ceased, leaving the Sacred College with few opportunities to meet.
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