the Frenchman Armand-Jean du Plessis de Richelieu and Jules Mazarin — an Italian by birth. Even into the modern period, naming a foreign cleric as cardinal was taken as a measure of the ...

35.3 x 28.1 cm. (13.9 x 11.1 in.) ...

With these words the newly created Philippine Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David y Siongco addressed Pope Francis after finding out that his name appeared among the new cardinals on the list for the ...

“Does God Exist?: The Cry of Man Asking for Salvation” is the title of a new interview book by Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect emeritus of the Congregation — now Dicastery — for Divine ...

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, OP, concluded his term as archbishop of Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, his 80th birthday, when Pope Francis accepted his resignation. Schönborn, a theologian who ...

BATH TOWNSHIP, MI – A yellow northern cardinal is a rare thing and Michigan’s got one. Michiganders Arlene and John McDaniel have been backyard birders for nearly four decades and just before ...

That approach came through prominently as San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy made his first appearance after the announcement. Speaking at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington ...

MADISON – The charge of sexual assault against Theodore McCarrick will remain suspended, nearly a year after a judge ruled that the former Catholic cardinal was not competent to stand trial due ...

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