The day after Pope Francis inducted him into the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago took possession of his titular church in Rome, the Basilica of St Bartholomew on Tiber Island.
Cardinals are symbolically priests of the Diocese of Rome, so they are given titular churches in the city. St Bartholomew also had been the titular church of Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, who died in 2015.
In addition to taking possession of the church, Cardinal Cupich presided over vespers, which began with the reading of the papal document - in Latin, Italian and English - granting the cardinal "possession" of the church. The English translation was read by retired Archbishop John Quinn of San Francisco.
