VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis on Sunday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first Black U.S. prelate to earn the coveted red hat. In a ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has named Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory as one of 13 new cardinals. Gregory will become the first Black U.S. prelate to earn the coveted red hat. In a surprise ...

Among the 133 cardinals to assemble in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel to elect a new leader of the Roman Catholic Church were 10 Americans and one former bishop of the Diocese of Belleville in southern ...

The Archdiocese of Washington had its largest ordination class since 1960, when 17 men were ordained the year that John F. Kennedy was elected as the nation’s first Catholic president. Cardinal Wilton ...

One day after the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pontiff from the U.S., seven American cardinals sat down with reporters on Friday to discuss the Chicago native who now leads the Roman Catholic ...

Ten American cardinals went into the Sistine Chapel for a conclave this past week. Nine came out. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) TIMOTHY DOLAN: Where he comes from is sort of now a thing of the ...

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory and other clergy leave the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in 2019. Jose Luis Magana/AP Among the 133 cardinals to assemble in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel to elect a ...