new cardinals Archives

Advent a time to shed mediocrity and indifference, pope tells cardinals

Nov 29, 2020

Opening the Church’s season of Advent, Pope Francis Sunday celebrated Mass with a crop of new cardinals he elevated yesterday, warning against the temptations of mediocrity and indifference and touting prayer and charity as the remedy.

By Elise Ann Allen

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

Friends, family, faithful celebrate new cardinals at Vatican reception

Oct 6, 2019

A long, snail-paced line of well-wishers waited to greet Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu of Kinshasa, Congo, after the ceremony in which Pope Francis placed a red hat on his head.

By Barbara J. Fraser and Carol Glatz

New cardinals: Pope’s choices stress dialogue, care for poor

Oct 5, 2019

After the consistory to create new cardinals on Oct. 5, Pope Francis will have chosen more than half of the men who will enter the Sistine Chapel to elect his successor.

By Cindy Wooden

Guatemalan prelate says his remarks are based on what he experiences

Oct 1, 2019

Cardinal-designate Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri offered prayers for Central American migrants Sept. 29, while celebrating Mass on World Day for Migrants and Refugees in this downtrodden Guatemalan department, epicenter of an ongoing outflow of migrants toward the United States.

By David Agren

New Lithuanian cardinal, ‘strong internally,’ spent time in Soviet prison

Sep 21, 2019

Lithuania’s new cardinal, a veteran of Soviet prisons and labor camps, counts on not being assigned “specific duties” following his elevation so he can continue serving his local church.

By Jonathan Luxmoore

Islam expert brings red hat to multicultural ministry in Liverpool

Sep 15, 2019

Once the top expert on Islam at the Vatican, Cardinal-designate Michael Fitzgerald is unsure whether a new top-ranking title will help or hamper his work ministering in a multicultural inner-city parish in Liverpool, England.

By Carol Glatz

Vatican archivist, award-winning poet, to be made a cardinal

Sep 8, 2019

Like many others who were named cardinals by Pope Francis, Cardinal-designate Jose Tolentino Calaca de Mendonca was caught off guard when he found out about his appointment.

By Junno Arocho Esteves