India’s most prominent cardinal is standing down as Archbishop of Bombay, have reached the ago of 80 right before last ...

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, a Dominican theologian who helped write the Catechism of the Catholic Church, led the Vienna ...

A Council of Cardinals was held on the 28th of December, in which the following decisions were adopted: 1. Suspension of the departure of Cardinal ANTONELLI for Paris until the temporal rights of ...

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Francis discontinued this practice, although he did create a council of nine cardinals with whom he consults periodically.

He is currently chairman of Pope Francis’ Council of Cardinals. The Vatican announced Jan. 22 that Pope Francis had accepted Cardinal Schönborn’s resignation and appointed an apostolic ...