Unknown and less and less European Cardinals

With each creation of cardinals, along with numerical growth, the globalization of the school, desired, above all, by Pius XII and Paul VI, then continued by John Paul II and brought to its culmination with Francis. “Should not those who will have to judge the world be chosen by everyone?” he asked about 1145 — that is, at the origins of the sacred college — Bernardo de Claraval describing the Pope’s electors. But the first steps to make the des…