Even if every new intake to the Pope’s “Senate” is significant, some Consistories nonetheless have more meaning than others – and as Francis’ fifth class of new cardinals, 14 in all, receive the red hat Thursday afternoon, the group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=84&v=a0Tst-L0dic April 16 marks Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s 91st birthday. He will be spending the day quietly in the ‘Mater Ecclesia’ Monastery in the Vatican, where he lives. The day
Almost 150 years ago, Pope Pius IX led the Catholic Church in declaring the dogma of papal infallibility applied to solemn declarations of faith and morals, according to which popes are preserved from the possibility of
