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This month Pope Francis announced that he\u2019s creating 21 cardinals, and once again his list includes unexpected names that will baffle commentators who assume that he\u2019s determined to stack the next conclave with liberals.\xa0
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\nFor example, Australia now finally has a cardinal \u2013 but he\u2019s a 44-year-old bishop from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic diaspora rather than the actual head of the Ukrainian Church in Kiev. There\u2019s also a new English cardinal who isn\u2019t even a bishop, the Dominican theologian Timothy Radcliffe. He\u2019s nearly 80, so will soon have to step down as an elector \u2013 but, believe it or not, one of the new cardinals is 99 and therefore old enough to be his father.
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\nIn this episode of Holy Smoke, Vatican analyst Serre Verweij joins Damian Thompson to discuss the significance of this consistory. He suggests that this Pope, famously hostile to traditionalists, is nonetheless moving to the right at this late stage in his pontificate. But why?\xa0