Cardinal Timothy Dolan, outgoing Archbishop of New York, attends Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dec. 18. REUTERS If you’ve ever had the privilege of listening to Timothy Cardinal Dolan preach at St.

Timothy Cardinal Dolan never backed down from a political scrap, but was quick with a kind word and a sympathetic ear — and even kept a list of people he prayed for. At 75, the retiring leader of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I am here to listen," Leo, a Chicago native and the first ever pope from the U.S., said Wednesday in his opening remarks. "This ...

VATICAN CITY – Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world’s cardinals for two days of meetings to help him govern the church, the Vatican said Saturday, in the clearest sign yet that the new year will signal ...

A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.” It implies the sacred and secretive process is no popularity contest or campaign, but rather the ...

Pope Leo XIV has summoned a second consistory of the College of Cardinals, scheduled for late June. According to Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni, the pontiff intends to gather the world’s Catholic ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In his first major act of governance, Pope Leo XIV welcomed about 170 cardinals this week at the Vatican for an extraordinary consistory, a gathering aimed at addressing the most ...

The 21 new cardinals to be created by Pope Francis at the Dec. 7 consistory reflect the pontiff’s vision for a missionary Church that reaches out to the world’s peripheries. Following the 10th ...

If you’ve ever had the privilege of listening to Timothy Cardinal Dolan preach at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, you’ve surely heard him refer to the towering house of worship as “America’s parish church.” ...

Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world’s cardinals for two days of meetings to help him govern the church, the Vatican said Saturday, in the clearest sign yet that the new year will signal the unofficial ...