Pope Benedict Installs 23 New Cardinals
By VOA News
24 November 2007

Pope Benedict has urged an end to the war in Iraq and the suffering of Iraqi Christians during a ceremony elevating 23 clerics from around the world to the elite Catholic rank of cardinal.

In a sermon at Saint Peter's Basilica Saturday, the pontiff said he is praying for peace and reconciliation in Iraq.

He specifically mentioned the 80-year-old Chaldean patriarch of Baghdad, Emmanuel Delly, saying he chose the cleric to join the rank of cardinal as an expression of the Vatican's spiritual closeness with Iraq's Christians. the rest