Cardinals

Cardinal Czerny’s courageous past in El Salvador remembered
- Nov 3, 2019
It may be 30 years since Cardinal Michael Czerny left the Jesuit-run Central American University in El Salvador, but it’s not a place that has forgotten him.

By Mickey Conlon
Cardinal Nichols to face questions about British abuse case
- Oct 6, 2018
Amid a British investigation into sexual abuse, Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster is expected to face questions regarding the way his archdiocese handled allegations of misconduct made against his predecessor, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor.

By Ed Condon
Cardinal Tobin reportedly declined to investigate McCarrick misconduct rumors
- Sep 2, 2018
Cardinal Joseph Tobin told a journalist Friday that he heard rumors shortly after his 2017 arrival in the Archdiocese of Newark about the sexual misconduct of Archbishop Theodore McCarrick. He said he did not investigate those rumors because he found them unbelievable.

By Catholic News Agency

New Portuguese cardinal expected to bring Church ‘closer to people’
- Jun 2, 2018
“The Holy Father knows well what I think, and knows he has a supporter in me for his reforms,” Cardinal-designate Antonio dos Santos Marto of Leiria-Fatima said.

By Jonathan Luxmoore

Red hat and rubble: Pope shows love for quake victims, new cardinal says
- May 31, 2018
Cardinal-designate Giuseppe Petrocchi believes the pope named him a cardinal as a gesture of solidarity and charity to a diocese devastated by a 2009 earthquake.

By Cindy Wooden
Peru’s cardinal-designate received death threats for opposing smelter
- May 28, 2018
Cardinal designate Pedro Barreto Jimeno once faced death threats for speaking out about pollution from a smelter that threatened the health of people living high in the Andes Mountains.

By Barbara Fraser
Salvadoran cardinal sees upcoming Romero canonization as ‘gift from God’
- Mar 25, 2018
El Salvador’s Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez called the upcoming canonization of Blessed Oscar Romero a “gift from God” and is optimistic it can bring hope to his troubled homeland and to the Catholic Church.

By Catholic News Service
Defiant and determined, Pell says he now has chance to clear his name
- Jun 29, 2017
Cardinal George Pell, prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, will be returning to Australia to face decades-old charges of sexual offenses against minors, charges he has consistently denied. At a brief appearance before journalists in Rome this morning, the cardinal says he now has a chance finally to clear his name.

By Austen Ivereigh