ROME (AP) — Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, the Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up as the model confessor, has died in Buenos Aires at age 98, the Vatican said Wednesday. Dri, a Capuchin friar, ...

(RNS) On Nov. 19 at the Vatican, Pope Francis will officially name – or “create,” as the Catholic Church prefers to say – 17 new cardinals. What is a cardinal anyway? Where did they come from?

T he 133 cardinals from 70 different countries face a monumental task: choosing a pope who can restore credibility and relevance to the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church, particularly among young people.

Religion: More Cardinals. 4 minute read. TIME. December 20, 1926 12:00 AM GMT-5. W hen will there be another non-Italian Pope? A Dutchman, broad and beaming, was revered by Roman Catholics some ...

Cardinals attend a consistory led by Pope Francis as he names 20 new cardinals at the Vatican February 12, 2015. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi ...

Religion: Cardinal’s Recollections. 3 minute read. TIME. June 18, 1934 12:00 AM GMT-4. F or three days in Boston last week, stocky dimple-chinned William Henry Cardinal O’Connell was a figure ...

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, the archbishop of Kinshasa, Congo, said he is in Rome to elect a pope for the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. “I am not here for the Congo, I am not here for ...

VATICAN CITY — Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis' successor, delaying the secret voting for two days so they can get to know one ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost joins the conclave Wednesday to pick Pope Francis' successor. His rise in the faith began at a South Side church. "Even as a young teenager, he knew what he wanted to do ...

The United States is home to 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope. ... entered the Legionaries of Christ religious order in 1966 and was ordained a priest in 1978.

The College of Cardinals that will elect a new pope includes members from far-flung corners of the globe whom Francis named over his 12-year papacy to bring in new points of view — often at the ...