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The 2 Brazilians among Pope Francis’ 21 new cardinals

Brazil now officially has two new cardinals, one of them from the Amazon - the first in the country's history of the Catholic Church.

With the ceremony of the Ordinary Public Consistory in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican last Saturday, the Brazilians Monsignor Paulo Cezar Costa, archbishop of Brasilia, and Monsignor Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, archbishop of Manaus, now join the College of Cardinals that has among its attributions the choice of Pope Francis . . .

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