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The pope just announced a new consistory that will take place Dec. 8 appointing 21 new cardinals from around the world.

Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of the Kalookan Diocese, one of the most vocal critics of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s ...

When Pope Francis appoints new Catholic cardinals, as he did on Sunday, the move is often described as the pontiff pushing to ...

In his letter to Catholics in the Middle East, the Holy Father expressed his closeness with those “who dwell in the lands of ...

Commemorations and protests are being held across the world to mark a year since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

On the anniversary of Oct. 7, the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, I do not want to talk about peace or ...

Pope Francis announced he would create 21 new cardinals Dec. 8, including a 99-year-old former nuncio and the 44-year-old ...

On the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, Pope Francis expressed his solidarity with all those ...

Dear brothers and sisters,I am thinking of you and praying for you. I want to reach out to you on this sad day. A year ago, the fuse of hatred was lit; it did not sputter, but exploded in a spiral of ...