consistory 2020 Archives

Cardinal Gregory welcomed home to Washington with applause, balloons, banner

Dec 4, 2020

As Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory’s car pulled up to the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center in Hyattsville Dec. 3, about three dozen employees greeted him with applause, welcoming him home to the Archdiocese of Washington.

By Mark Zimmermann, CNS

Black Catholics express joy at elevation of first African American cardinal

Dec 1, 2020

On Nov. 28, Pope Francis elevated 13 new cardinals from around the world to the College of Cardinals at a consistory in Rome. Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, who has been Washington’s archbishop since 2019, was among them.

By Mark Zimmermann, CNS

Pope tells 13 new cardinals that red hat is not a career advancement

Nov 28, 2020

Pope Francis created 13 new cardinals Saturday, including nine cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope and the first African-American cardinal in the history of the United States, Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C.

By Elise Ann Allen

New cardinals quarantine in pope’s hotel ahead of consistory

Nov 27, 2020

The Vatican’s Santa Marta hotel was built to sequester cardinals during papal elections. It’s now sequestering soon-to-be cardinals in town for this weekend’s ceremony to get their red hats: A handful are in protective coronavirus quarantine, confined to their rooms on Vatican orders and getting meals delivered to their doors.

By Nicole Winfield and Trisha Thomas

Italian cardinal-designate got start on Rome’s rough streets

Nov 27, 2020

Cardinal-designate Paolo Lojudice’s work in Rome’s rough outskirts earned him such titles as “street priest,” “bishop of the Roma” community, and Pope Francis even told him the word was that he was the toughest bishop in the capital.

By Carol Glatz

Italian cardinal-designate says he’s simply a pastor

Nov 27, 2020

“I am a pastor,” Cardinal-designate Enrico Feroci, 80, said after Pope Francis announced he would make him a cardinal. “I hope to continue being a pastor.”

By Cindy Wooden

Cardinal-designate Gambetti studied engineering, then became a friar

Nov 27, 2020

Although he had a degree in mechanical engineering, Cardinal-designate Mauro Gambetti decided to dedicate his life’s journey to a different kind of builder, St. Francis of Assisi.

By Carol Glatz

Chile’s cardinal appointment coincides with country’s political change

Nov 27, 2020

Cardinal-designate Celestino Aós Braco will take on his new role at one of the most critical times for Chile and its church in the past three decades.

By Lucien Chauvin