Sunday, February 19, 2012

Canada’s newest cardinal is ‘a shepherd, not an emperor’

As a newly minted red hat – to borrow the Vatican insiders' phrase for Rome's elite – Thomas Collins is well placed to carry on the Catholic Church's traditions of pomp and splendour. 

But even as Pope Benedict XVI raised his status to cardinal at St. Peter's Basilica on Saturday, the 65-year-old Archbishop of Toronto seems unlikely to be blinded by his own magnificence.