It is time to stop this slaughter.” With these words, Pope Leo XIV expressed his firm condemnation of the Israeli army’s ...

Leaders from the Catholic and Greek Orthodox Church visited Gaza’s only Catholic church on Friday, where a day earlier three ...

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, ...

Upon their entrance into Gaza, Pope Leo XIV called Cardinal Pizzaballa to 'offer his support, closeness, and prayers' for the ecclesiastical delegation and the people left shaken by the Israeli attack ...

(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?

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 ...

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.

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 ...