Cardinal Gregory reflects on Rev. King’s legacy today Last year, Cardinal Wilton Gregory became the first African American to ...

Black History Month Jubilee Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025.Get Photo The head of the Archdiocese of Newark, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, second from ...

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, retiring Archbishop of Washington, D.C., and the first African American Cardinal, will join Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Archbishop of Newark, for the Archdiocese of ...

Cardinal Wilton Gregory gives his homily during an Easter Sunday Mass on March 31, 2024 at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington. (Credit: Patrick Ryan/Catholic Standard, Archdiocese ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Cardinals from around the world are preparing for what will be the largest papal conclave in history, and the first African American cardinal in the U.S., who began his Catholic ...

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, right, the retiring archbishop of Washington, dispenses ashes to Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, during Ash Wednesday Mass March 5, 2025, at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the ...

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory and other clergy leave the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in 2019. Jose Luis Magana/AP Among the 133 cardinals to assemble in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel to elect a ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — 'Mercy and compassion must be our first impulse when confronted with sin and human failure,' said the cardinal, who will fill the seat vacated by Cardinal Wilton Gregory, who ...