Following that of the Pope, the title of cardinal is the highest dignity in the Catholic Church which was recognized as early as the pontificate of Sylvester I (314-335). Rooted in the Latin word ...

After penning a letter to the world’s cardinals asking them to focus on financial reform, urging spending cuts and ...

While the Secret Service protects the U.S. president, the Swiss Guard protects the pope. So who are these men who ...

Pope Francis has called on cardinals to work to achieve the goal of “zero deficit” in the economy of the Catholic Church ...

In 1939 Cardinal Pacelli came face to face with the event which was to climax his ecclesiastical career. Pope Pius XI died. From all points of the compass Cardinals rushed to Rome to elect his ...

"Additional effort is now needed on everyone's part so that a 'zero deficit' may not only be a theoretically, but effectively ...

Pope Francis told Roman Catholic cardinals they need to cut unnecessary spending to reach the Vatican’s zero-deficit target ...

Pope Gregory X was elected pope, but not before residents of Viterbo, north of Rome, tore the roof off the building where the cardinals were staying and restricted their meals to bread and water ...

LONDON -- According to a dispatch from Rome received here today, Cardinal Della Chiesa, assistant papal secretary of state, was elected by the sacred college to succeed Pope Pius X. The new pope ...

In elevating Theodore E. McCarrick to the position of cardinal, the former pope disregarded warnings and believed the prelate’s denials about sexual abuse, an inquiry found. Wednesday was the ...

Pope Francis sent a telegram of condolence on Tuesday to Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin following the death of the Italian prelate’s mother. After landing in Jakarta ...