Pope Francis used Sunday to create new cardinals and to deliver a number of messages.

The first 15 of them went to archbishops around the globe who will be inducted as voting members into the College of Cardinals in February. These 15 include men from countries as far flung as Uruguay and Ethiopia,Thailand and Tonga. Myanmar, Cape Verde and Panama will be home to their first cardinals. (True also of Tonga, with its 103,000 islanders.) So the first message is not “conservative” or “liberal,” just that the College of Cardinals is going to be much more vast in its geographic reach than ever before.