During his remarks, Cardinal McElroy sharply criticized the administration’s foreign aid suspension as 'unconscionable ...

Pope Francis’ health scare that’s left him hospitalized with double pneumonia for weeks has Catholics worldwide and in ...

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, retiring Archbishop of Washington, D.C., and the first and only African American Cardinal, ...

Cardinal Robert McElroy emphasized the importance of Christian hope, mercy, and respecting human dignity in a homily in the ...

Pope Francis' biggest critic, an anti-vaccine traditionalist papal lawyer who would be the first American pontiff, is among the frontrunners to replace him. Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke ...

The American was named as prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura - the church’s highest court, and made a Cardinal two years later. When Francis was appointed Pope in 2013 ...

Francis appointed him as the first-ever African American cardinal. Until each man turns 80, he’ll be part of the group of special bishops known as the College of Cardinals, or papal conclave ...