[Apologetics] Re: Non-bishop cardinals

[Stephen Korsman]

Hi

Apparently Avery Cardinal Dulles is not a bishop.  When a non-bishop becomes a cardinal, he is now normally consecrated as a bishop first, but Pope John Paul II agreed to a dispensation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avery_Dulles

On the Catholic Heirarchy website he is not listed as being a bishop - http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdulles.html - unlike Cardinal Arinze at http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/barinze.html.  He is listed on the page with living bishops, but possibly only because he's a cardinal?

Henri Cardinal de Lubac is another - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Lubac.  On the page of deceased bishops, he's listed as a priest of the Society of Jesus, not a bishop of anywhere.

Can anyone confirm that Cardinal Dulles is not a bishop?  I've found numerous articles saying that he is not (e.g. http://www.crisismagazine.com/julaug2001/feature1.htm.)  http://www.fordham.edu/dulles/bio.shtml, his own university, doesn't explicitly state that he never became one, but only that he was created cardinal by "Pope John Paul II, the first American-born theologian who is not a bishop to receive this honor" ... and I take that to be sloppy punctuation and that Dulles was the American-born theologian.

God bless,
Stephen
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Stephen Korsman 
  To: Apologetics Group 
  Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 8:49 PM
  Subject: Non-bishop cardinals


  Hi

  How many of the current cardinals are not bishops of some sort or other?  (Bishop, archibishop, patriarch, etc.)

  http://ncrcafe.org/node/1378 has a list of the new cardinals - two are priests, the rest are bishops, including one patriarch..

  The last lay cardinals were at the time of Pope Pius IX.

  God bless,
  Stephen
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