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Pictures: O'Brien elevated to Catholic cardinal
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Baltimore Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien became a cardinal early Saturday in a ceremony at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. Last summer, he was appointed Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, an ancient association that ministers in historical Palestine. Even as he prepared in Rome for the weekend ceremony that will elevate him to cardinal, O'Brien <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-obrien-cardinal-20120217,0,3348120.story">vigorously lobbied for political issues</a> important to the Roman Catholic Church — a hallmark of his five-year stint here
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