New cardinals.

On March 25, Pope Benedict XVI will elevate fifteen men to the College of Cardinals. Of the fifteen, only twelve will be of an age to vote in the conclave for a new pope; the remainder are given honorific appointments. The new cardinals are:

* American Archbishop William Joseph Levada, 69, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith;

* Slovenian Archbishop Franc Rode, C.M., 71, prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life;

* Italian Archbishop Agostino Vallini, 65, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura;

* Venezuelan Archbishop Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, 63, of Caracas;

* Filipino Archbishop Gaudencio B. Rosales, 73, of Manila;

* French Archbishop Jean-Pierre Ricard, 61, of Bordeaux;

* Spanish Archbishop Antonio Canizares Llovera, 60, of Toledo;

* Korean Archbishop Nicholas Cheong Jin-Suk, 74, of Seoul;

* American Archbishop Sean Patrick O'Malley, O.F.M. Cap., 61, of Boston;

* Polish Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, 66, of Krakow;

* Italian Archbishop Carlo Caffarra, 67, of Bologna;

* Chinese Bishop Joseph Zen Zekiun, S.D.B., 74, of Hong Kong;

* three other cardinals, for services rendered, 80 and older, are: African Archbishop Peter Poreku Dery; 87, of Ghana; Italian Archbishop Andrea Di Montezemolo, 80; and Father Albert Vanhoye, S. J., biblical scholar.

The Holy Father is using the Consistory set for March 24 to call a meeting of all the world's cardinals in Rome.