Pope Looks Beyond West With Cardinal Picks

ROME—Pope Francis took one of his biggest steps yet to reshape the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy by appointing a batch of new cardinals hailing largely from the developing world.



The pontiff's choices—including priests from Asia and Africa, as well as poor countries such as Haiti and Burkina Faso—marks a departure from his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI's tendency to appoint cardinals from Western countries and resumes a...

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