Sunday, 5 October 2025

BREAKING: Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Lay Cardinal by Pope Leo

 

His Eminence Arnold Cardinal Schwarzenegger

 

For immediate release:

October 4, 2025. Vatican City, Secretariat of State:

The Supreme Pontiff, Pope Leo, by his apostolic authority - all laws and customs notwithstanding - hereby conferred upon His Excellency, Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former United States Governor of California, the title and full dignities of cardinalis laicum, Saturday, October 4th, 2025.

His Excellency, Mr. Schwarzenegger has been appointed Special Advisor on the environment and climate to the Supreme Pontiff as an ex officio Member of the dicastery, Dicasterium ad Integram Humanam Progressionem Fovendam.

Sec. Arb. Frederico Fabbricare
 

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Note for readers: His Excellency, Mr. Schwarzenegger, in his capacity as Cardinal is now formally: Reverendissimo et eminentissimum, Dominus, Arnoldus, Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Schwarzenegger (The most Reverend and most Eminent Lord, Arnold Schwarzenegger of the Holy Roman Church).