The College of Cardinals

On Saturday Pope Francis will appoint new cardinals to the College of Cardinals. Rome Report's does a short review of what this will mean for the body called the Senate of the Catholic Church.

Meanwhile over at Salt + Light they have been doing a series introducing each of the new cardinals. Check it out at Meet the Cardinal's.

As ever Rocco over at Whispers has some interesting commentary on the new cardinals.

John Allen comments over at Crux - Francis reaches out to the margins in his picks for new cardinals