From Iran to Indonesia, Japan to the Philippines, Ivory Coast to Algeria, and finally to Italy with the new vicar of the Diocese of Rome. Surprisingly, as has become traditional throughout his twelve-year pontificate, Pope Francis read from the window of the Apostolic Palace after the Angelus the names of new cardinals to whom he will bestow the red hat on December 8, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. The world's peripheries, those far away or where Christians are a minority, as well as the great archdioceses or the personalities of the Roman Curia, are intertwined in the names listed by the Pontiff, who, also for his tenth Consistory, wishes to restore the face of a universal Church that embraces every latitude. "Their origin expresses the universality of the Church that continues to proclaim God's merciful love to all men and women on earth", according to the Pope. "The inclusion within the Diocese of Rome then expresses the inseparable bond between the See of Peter and the particular Churches spread throughout the world."