"The task of Cardinals is to help the Successor of Peter to carry out his ministry of strengthening the brethren in the faith and of being a principle and source of the unity and communion of the Church. "
(H.H. Benedict XVI, Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, Angelus January 6,2012)
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