For most, the news comes via a phone call, with the voice at the other end asking “Are you alone?” This is not the secret service, but the process by which senior church figures are informed that the Pope has made them a cardinal.The calls come from the recipients’ papal nuncios and, in recent times, have been placed a day before the Pope makes the announcement.Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, who was created a cardinal in 2001, explained in the book Ten African Cardinals that after asking him if he was alone the nuncio said: “Well, I just wanted to tell you that the Pope has appointed you cardinal.” This shocked the Archbishop of Durban into the simple, one word reply: “What!”Similarly, the late Cardinal Thomas Winning, the former Archbishop of Glasgow,