ROME (AP) — Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, the Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up as the model confessor, has died in ...

A Filipino, 67, who would be the first Asian pope if elected. He’s a former archbishop of Manila, goes by the nickname Chito, and presided over a mega-mass of six million for Pope Francis in the ...

Pope Francis prays in front of new cardinals during consistory inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Aug. 27, 2022. Pope Francis announced on Sunday that he has chosen 21 new cardinals.

Pope Francis becomes first pope to address G7 leaders 02:30. Pope Francis on Saturday installed 21 new cardinals, many of whom are key figures in his reform agenda: A Dominican preacher who acted ...

Considered to be a favourite of Pope Francis, Cardinal Zuppi has been president of the Episcopal Conference of Italy since ...

Francis changed College of Cardinals. Within 20 days of the pope’s death, a conclave consisting of 120 cardinals out of the 138 “princes of the church” who are under age 80 and can vote will ...

Pope Francis made the late Archbishop Anthony Soter Fernandez a cardinal in 2016, but due to his age, he was not eligible to vote in a conclave. More: Pope Francis / Vatican Thomas J. Reese ...

When Pope Francis anoints 21 new princes of the Roman Catholic Church on Saturday, he will seem to have consolidated his grip on the powerful College of Cardinals — and on the direction of the ...