When Pope Francis appoints new Catholic cardinals, as he did on Sunday, the move is often described as the pontiff pushing to ...

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

The pope just announced a new consistory that will take place Dec. 8 appointing 21 new cardinals from around the world.

In his letter to Catholics in the Middle East, the Holy Father expressed his closeness with those “who dwell in the lands of ...

One year after the attack perpetrated by Hamas in Israel, Pope Francis addressed a letter on Monday, October 7, to Catholics ...

In a letter on the anniversary of the October 7 attacks in the Middle East, Pope Francis calls for an end to conflict and a ...

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

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Pope Francis has named 21 new cardinals, further swelling the ranks of the prelates who will be eligible to one day cast ...

The pope declared a fast on Oct. 7, urging Catholics to pray for peace in the Middle East. Jews were already fasting for Tzom ...

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