Cardinal Reina, 54, is vicar general of the Diocese of Rome since 2024. As part of that role, he is also grand chancellor of the Pontifical Lateran University, the home of the John Paul II Institute.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, whose papal name will be Pope Leo XIV, will make history as the first American pope Jordana Comiter is an Associate Editor on the Evergreen team at PEOPLE. She has been ...

He pointed out that this was something he had picked up from his predecessor, Cardinal John Tong Hon, the former bishop of Hong Kong, who had done something similar when Pope Francis was elected in ...

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle speaks at a post-conclave press conference along with two other Filipino cardinal electors at the Pontificio Collegio Filippino in Rome, May 9, 2025. (Credit: Roy ...

UPI File Photo In 1935, Pope Pius XI canonized Sir Thomas More and Cardinal John Fisher as saints of the Catholic Church. English King Henry VIII ordered the two men executed in 1535 for refusing ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV — confirmed the Marymount International School 9th graders, usually 14 or 15 years old, in a Mass on May 11, 2024. (Credit: Marymount ...

For many centuries, new popes tended to choose the name of the pope who had elevated them to cardinal. John was the most popular, chosen by 23 popes, followed by Benedict and Gregory, each with 16.

The first American Pope Leo XIV (20 min 22 sec) Cardinal John Dew says Pope Leo is being welcomed "extremely well by everyone and will be accepted by everyone". "When he appeared on the balcony ...

The conclave to elect Pope Leo XIV was “fraternal” in atmosphere without the high drama of the award-winning film of the same name, a cardinal on ... Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow, the ...

KOCHI: When Dominique Mamberti, the Cardinal Protodeacon ... s regional house, Fr John Bosco was especially ecstatic. “The new pontiff had taken part in the priesthood ordination ceremony ...