Pope Francis on Sunday promoted 17 Roman Catholic prelates from around the world to the high rank of cardinal, including 13 who are under 80 years old and thus eligible to succeed him one day. Cardinals, who wear red hats and are known as "princes ...
The presumptive Philippine president-elect on Saturday blasted the country's dominant Roman Catholic Church as "the most hypocritical institution" and accused some of its bishops of corruption for allegedly asking favors from politicians, including him. In a late-night news conference that dragged on into early Sunday ...
Two Roman Catholic bishops who led a Pennsylvania diocese helped cover up the sexual abuse of hundreds of children by over 50 priests or religious leaders over a 40-year period, according to a grand jury report issued Tuesday. The report on the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese was ...
I don't remember hearing the name of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis in March, or any of his fellow Argentinian Jesuits when I was in Buenos Aires in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. They seemed strangely silent in such harrowing times when ...
