31 new cardinals.

Vatican City -- John Paul II named 30 new cardinals, including seven officials in the Roman Curia, and announced they would get their red hats at a consistory on October 21. The Pope also announced a thirty-first cardinal "in pectore"--close to his heart--whose name he is not yet making public.

The College of Cardinals currently has 164 members, including 109 who are under age 80 and thus eligible to vote in a conclave for a new pope. With the consistory, the number of cardinals eligible to vote would surpass the current limit of 120. In preceding consistories, the Holy Father has already surpassed the limit.

The cardinals-to-be who work in the Roman Curia are:

* Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, Vatican secretary for relations with states (home country: France);

* Archbishop Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (Italy);

* Archbishop Francesco Marchisano, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Goods of the Church (Italy);

* Archbishop Julian Herranz of the Prelature of the Opus Dei, president of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts (Spain);

* Archbishop Javier Barragan, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers (Mexico);

* Archbishop Stephen Hamao, president of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers (Japan);

* Archbishop Attilio Nicora, president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See (Italy).

There are also 19 pastors of as many local churches. Their names are:

* Archbishop Angelo Scola, of Venice, Italy;

* Archbishop Anthony Okogie of Lagos, Nigeria;

* Archbishop Bernard Panafieu of Marseilles, France;

* Archbishop Gabriel Wako of Khartoum, Sudan;

* Archbishop Carlos Vallejo of Seville, Spain;

* Archbishop Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, United States;

* Archbishop Keith O'Brien of St. Andrew's and Edinburgh, Scotland;

* Archbishop Eusebio Scheid of Sao Sebastian of Rio de Janeiro;

* Archbishop Ennio Antonelli of Florence, Italy;

* Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone of Genoa, Italy;

* Archbishop Peter Turkson of Cape Coast, Ghana;

* Archbishop Telesphore Toppo of Ranchi, India;

* Archbishop George Pell of Sydney, Australia;

* Archbishop Josip Bozanic of Zagreb, Croatia;

* Archbishop Jean Baptiste Pham Minh Man of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam;

* Archbishop Rodolfo Toruno of Guatemala City;

* Archbishop Philippe Barbarin of Lyon, France;

* Archbishop Peter Erdo of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary;

* Archbishop Marc Ouellet, of Quebec City, Canada.

John Paul II also named cardinals four priests who have been outstanding in their service to the Church. They are Swiss-born Dominican Father Georges Cottier, Papal Household theologian; Monsignor Gustaaf Joos, canon of the Diocese of Ghent, Belgium; Jesuit Father Thomas Spidlik of the Czech Republic; and Father Stanislas Nagy (Zenit, Sept. 28/03).