Cardinals

Cardinal Nichols to face questions about British abuse case
- Cardinals, Catholic News Agency
- 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.
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Cardinal Tobin reportedly declined to investigate McCarrick misconduct rumors
- Cardinals, Catholic News Agency
- 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.
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New Portuguese cardinal expected to bring Church ‘closer to people’
- Cardinals, Catholic News Service
- 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.
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Red hat and rubble: Pope shows love for quake victims, new cardinal says
- Cardinals, Catholic News Service
- 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.
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Peru’s cardinal-designate received death threats for opposing smelter
- Cardinals, Catholic News Service
- 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.
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Salvadoran cardinal sees upcoming Romero canonization as ‘gift from God’
- Cardinals, Catholic News Service
- 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.
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