New PH cardinal will be Mindanao’s ‘prophet’

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As someone who plays to win in basketball, the new cardinal from Mindanao faces new challenges in his own territory. Bishop Orlando Quevedo officially became cardinal on Saturday, February 22 after Pope Francis presented him and other new cardinals scarlet-red birettas and gold rings at a grand ceremony held at the Vatican. Quevedo, according to Fr Eliseo Mercado, will be like a prophet who will stand for righteousness but may end up neglected or persecuted. The new cardinal has been espousing an “unpopular” view on Mindanao that sees the conflict in the South as an “issue of justice.”


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