Speaking of the color red

This morning the announcement of 23 new cardinals was made. Two Americans will be given the red biretta by Pope Benedict XVI on November 24. Archbishop Daniel DiNardo of Houston-Galveston and Archbishop John Foley were the two Americans. Archbishop DiNardo was previously the bishop of Sioux City, IA, which is not too far from my home in Sioux Falls, SD. This is the first time in my short life that there has been a cardinal in the southern part of the United States. One of the Italians that have been elevated to cardinal is Archbishop Giovanni Lajola. Three years ago he was the principal consecrator of Archbishop Thomas Gullickson, who is a priest of the diocese of Sioux Falls and is now the Apostolic Nuncio to the Caribbean.