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What's a cardinal? The 'princes' of the Church electing a new pope
Cardinals from all over the world will gather in conclave on Wednesday to elect a successor to Pope Francis. There were 135 ...
Conclave to elect a new pope begins as 133 Catholic cardinals file into Sistine Chapel
The conclave to select the next pope has begun after Catholic cardinals from across the world filed into the Sistine Chapel ...
Catholic cardinals to sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of the conclave
Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to ...
Who wears purple in the Catholic church?
While the cardinals are known to wear their scarlet red attire, some individuals involved in conclave proceedings were seen ...
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Cardinals ask the perennial question: What does the church need?
The key question facing the cardinals ... is the rootedness in Christ that moves the church out of itself and into the world. The great French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain once said ...
Catholic faithful in Virginia filled with jubilation, surprise over first American pope
Regina Bethencourt was leaving the Saint Rita Parish Center Preschool in Alexandria with her 4-year-old daughter when she ...
Pope Leo asks cardinals to make themselves ‘small’ in first Mass as pontiff as cardinals deny he’s a ‘counterweight’ to Trump
Leo XIV held his first Mass as pope in the Sistine Chapel on Friday, in what was a private service for the 132 voting ...
Meet the Catholic cardinal voting in the 2025 conclave with ties to western Iowa
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo led the Sioux City diocese as bishop for six years during the early 2000s. The 75-year-old is ...