ANALYSIS: Here are six angles for understanding who the new cardinals are and why Pope Francis might have picked them.

In his letter, the Holy Father expressed his closeness with those “who dwell in the lands of which the Scriptures speak most ...

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I think we have to look at the question very much from … the Spirit. ‘Is the Spirit calling women?’” said Sister Mary Theresa ...

Pope Francis announced he would create 21 new cardinals Dec. 8, including a 99-year-old former nuncio and the 44-year-old ...

Pope Francis has already named the majority of cardinals who will one day vote in a conclave to elect his successor ...

On the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, Pope Francis expressed his solidarity with all those ...

The study groups are investigating questions such as how to improve seminary education, ministry to LGBTQ Catholics and ...

Participants in the Synod on Synodality spent two days before the start of its final session in a closed retreat that ended ...

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Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired a barrage of rockets into Israel as mourners marked the anniversary of the Oct. 7 ...