Live Blogging the Texan That Could Be Pope

Well this week is huge in Rome. It is Consistory Week. Which means the Pope is about to make a whole new slew of Cardinals. AKA as the people who will vote on his successor after he dies. They do much more than that of course. They really have important duties in the running of the Worldwide Church.

I noted we have a historic first. A Texan is about to become a "Prince of the Church". That is Archbishop Dinardo of Houston. Thus making him eligible to be POPE HIMSELF. A little know fact is that in theory a layman can be become Pope. However they would have to change the current rules for that to happen. Now the odds of College of Cardinals choosing a American as a future Pope is slim to none. However who knows what the Holy Spirit will do in the future.

I am glad that the secular media in Houston has keyed in on the significance that their city is about to be a SEE of a Cardinal. Generally that means that in the Catholic World, your city has hit the big time. The Houston Chronicle has a great blog that is following events here. Lots of great pics too.

Whispers in the Loggia has a much of other details on Dinardo as well as the Consistory as a whole. BE sure to check him out daily. To Vatican Watchers as he puts it this is indeed like the Super Bowl in many ways