Pope names successor to Paris Cardinal Lustiger

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Fri February 11, 2005 6:29 PM GMT+05:30

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Paris Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, a Jewish-born convert and adviser to the ailing Pope John Paul, will officially resign and be replaced by a former close aide, the Vatican said on Friday.

Archbishop of Tours Andre Vingt-Trois was named the new Paris prelate, which could lead in coming months to a meeting to elevate him and other archbishops to the College of Cardinals.

The 84-year-old Pontiff left Rome's Gemelli hospital on Thursday after 10 days of treatment for breathing difficulties. Announcing such an important nomination was a signal the Vatican was running normally despite the Pope's health problems.

Lustiger, whose mother was killed at Auschwitz, represented the Pope on Jan. 27 at ceremonies on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp in Poland.

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1. Times: The Pope plans new voices to choose his successor

The Pope plans new voices to choose his successor
From Richard Owen in Rome



THE Pope, who returned to the Vatican from hospital yesterday, is planning to create a new batch of cardinals to bring fresh blood into the body that will elect his successor.

Vatican insiders say a consistory is being planned for June. The move would help to counter suggestions that the Pope, 84, is no longer in charge of the Roman Catholic Church.

Eager to demonstrate his full recovery from breathing problems, the Pope was driven last night the 5½km from the Gemelli hospital to the Vatican in his Popemobile instead of the expected car with darkened windows.

Plastic sheeting was hung from the hospital entrance to the Popemobile to protect him from the evening chill.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1479151,00.html