According to Aleteia, cardinals who wear black do so because they are part of Eastern Catholic Churches and generally keep their black attire from when they were bishops before they were elevated ...

As armed groups continue to wreak havoc across Africa, a leading African Catholic has blamed the scourge on the race to ...

In addition to these six, the conclave includes four cardinals from Eastern Churches who serve outside the Middle East and North Africa. From India, there is Baselios Cleemis, archbishop ...

Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti recalled the extreme sacrifice Catholics from the Eastern Catholic Churches have made to remain faithful to the successor of St. Peter. Saturday, June 28, 2025 A service ...

While the cardinals are known to wear their scarlet red attire, some individuals involved in conclave proceedings were seen in black and purple clothes. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...

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TULSA, Okla. — Catholic churches across eastern Oklahoma gathered together to hold Mass and pray for the College of Cardinals ahead of the Papal Conclave that begins on Wednesday.

Instead, Francis sought to internationalize the College of Cardinals, giving red hats to a host of countries that had never been represented by a cardinal before, such as Tonga, Myanmar, Mongolia ...

Pope Leo signals he will press ahead with Francis' agenda Leo asks world's cardinals to commit to Church reforms Pope says Church should take lead against AI Cardinal says Vatican-China deal also ...

With no new pope elected after the first day of the conclave, the cardinals will reconvene in the chapel Thursday at 9:30 a.m. local time — 3:30 a.m. Eastern Time — for the next round of ...

The 69-year-old Italian cardinal was head of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches since 2022 and had extensive experience serving as an apostolic nuncio to countries with many Eastern Catholics ...

WASHINGTON — More than 130 cardinals were locked in the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, beginning the conclave to elect the next pope. The centuries-old ritual began after a Vatican official called ...