Popes have made a habit of exceeding the statutory limit on the number of cardinals under the age of 80, but Pope Francis is planning to set a record.
The pope announced Oct. 6 that he would create 21 new cardinals Dec. 8; fully 20 of the men named are under the age of 80 and would be eligible to enter a conclave to elect a pope.
More than two months after 5-year-old Loan Peña went missing in the northeastern Argentina town of Nueve de Julio, the church continues to promote marches to demand his captors release him.
Respecting the God-given dignity of the human person and the integrity of God’s creation “are inseparable,” said Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople.
There is no more fervent advocate calling for the protection and caring of the earth than the pope.
Every summer, my family would make a highly anticipated weekly trip to the local public library to check in on our progress for the summer reading program. The librarians would open a treasure box of prizes to reward us for the hours we spent reading the previous week, always leading up to end-of-summer prizes like free ice cream or tickets to the local minor league baseball team.
A native of Minneapolis and priest of 30 years with the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis — Father Kevin T. Kenney — has been named an auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese by Pope Francis.
“Jesus is not afraid to come close to us, even when we ‘stink’ like a dead person buried for three days,” the pope wrote in the preface to the Italian edition of Jesuit Father James Martin’s book, “Come Forth: The Raising of Lazarus and the Promise of Jesus’s Greatest Miracle.”
Recen siempre, y recen especialmente por el fin de todas las guerras, dijo el papa Francisco a los niños durante la Misa con la que concluyó la primera Primera Jornada Mundial del Niño.
