Francis has now named nine batches of new cardinals in his 10-year papacy. Even before this latest group, he had already appointed the large majority of those eligible to elect the next pontiff — those aged under 80. With the latest appointments, the number of ...
Pope Francis named 21 new cardinals Sunday, most of them from continents other than Europe — which dominated Catholic hierarchy for most of the church’s history — and further putting his mark on the group of people who might someday elect the next pontiff. Sixteen of those who will receiv...
Pope Francis adds cardinals, continues efforts at reform.Pope Francis adds cardinals, continues efforts at reform.The article reports on Pope Francis' appointment of 20 members to the College of Cardinals in mid-February 2015 as part of his efforts to revise the Roman Curia. Topics discussed incl...
After the publication of Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, a group of four Cardinals prepared and shared five questions—dubia ("doubts")—with the Pope and the public. The dubia focus on the content in one footnote in one chapter of the document. While a critique of Amor...
By Tracy WilkinsonLos Angeles Times
since the release in mid-August of the Pennsylvania grand jury report on how six dioceses handled abuse allegations and since the publication in late August of a document by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former nuncio to the United States, alleging that Pope Francis knew of now-Archbishop McCar...
By Ian Bush PHILADELPHIA (CBS)- Pope Francis wakes up this morning at St. Charles Seminary in Wynnewood, where he'll speak to hundreds of clergymen who've come from across the world -- along with the Catholic Church's future priests. ...
named Cardinal Deacon of the Title of the church of Santa Maria della Scala in Rome on 19 December. On 18 December 1754 he abandoned the ecclesiastical life for lack of vocation, renounced his ecclesiastical titles and dignities and assumed the title of 13th Conde de Chinchón granted by his...
Noun1.College of Cardinals- (Roman Catholic Church) the body of cardinals who advise the Pope and elect new Popes Sacred College body- a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body...
By ANDREA GAGLIARDUCCI ROME (CNA) — With his ninth consistory in 10 years of his pontificate, Pope Francis will lock down his influence on the College of Cardinals for the next conclave, considering the overwhelming majority of cardinals will have been