Pope Francis on Sunday named his first batch of cardinals, choosing 19 men from Asia, Africa, and elsewhere, including Haiti and Burkino Faso, to reflect his attention to the poor. Francis made the ...

Pope Francis presided over a ceremony Saturday to create 21 new cardinals, including key figures at the Vatican and in the field who will help enact his reforms and cement his legacy as he enters a ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday announced he has chosen 21 new cardinals, including prelates from Jerusalem and Hong Kong — places where Catholics are a small minority.

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday made his most important U.S. appointment to date, naming a fellow Chicagoan as the next archbishop ...

The appointment came a day after Leo named 58-year-old Bishop Ronald Hicks to succeed the retiring Cardinal Timothy Dolan as ...

Pope Leo has accepted Carinal Timothy Dolan's resignation Dec. 18 and announced a replacement for the Archdiocese of New York ...

Chicago native Bishop Ronald Hicks, head of the Joliet, Illinois, diocese, has been chosen by fellow Chicago native Pope Leo ...

The appointment of Bishop Ronald A. Hicks is expected to bring a markedly different leadership style to New York’s ...

Pope Leo XIV is planning to convene an extraordinary consistory of cardinals in early January, the theme of which is not yet known. In a brief communication sent to cardinals on Nov. 6 and obtained by ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrates a memorial Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica Nov. 3, 2025, for Pope Francis and all the cardinals and bishops who have died in the past year. Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media The ...

Pope Leo XIV has made a key US appointment, naming Bishop Ronald Hicks as the new archbishop of New York. The fellow ...