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 ...

Pope Francis has chosen 21 new cardinals in a move that once again shows his determination to reshape the group of churchmen who will elect his successor.. Francis, 87, made the surprise ...

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 ...

R OME (AP) — Pope Francis named 21 new cardinals Sunday, significantly increasing the size of the College of Cardinals and further cementing his mark on the group of prelates who will one day ...

In other words, even though Pope Francis packed the College of Cardinals with his own appointees, including a resounding majority of those who will elect him (about 80 per cent), there is no ...

As Pope Francis created 21 new cardinals in St. Peter’s Square today, Sept. 30, he told the college of cardinals—which now has 242 members from 91 countries, of whom 137 are under the age of ...

Cardinals greet each other as they wait for a consistory to start in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican where Pope Francis will create 21 new cardinals, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023.

V ATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a solemn Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday (Dec. 7), Pope Francis welcomed 21 new cardinals supporting the pope’s diverse vision for the church.

When the newly elected Pope Francis stepped onto the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica in 2013 to greet the crowd, he joked that the cardinals had gone “to the end of the world” – his native ...

WASHINGTON — Pope Francis on Sunday named Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, a cardinal, elevating the first African-American to the Catholic church’s highest governing body, a ...

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 ...

The College of Cardinals will soon convene to vote for a successor to Pope Francis, the first-ever Latin American pontiff, who died on April 21. Over the course of his 12-year papacy, Francis’ picks ...