Cardinals-designate facing quarantine and trip cancellations due to pandemic

As the consistory to create 13 new cardinals approaches, the coronavirus pandemic has forced two cardinals-designate to cancel their trips to Rome while another was placed in quarantine upon arrival. According to the Philippine bishops’ news service, Fr Emilio Arbatin, spokesman for Archdiocese of Capiz, confirmed that given the rising number of Covid-19 cases in Italy, the... Read More

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November 12, 2020

Banned Polish cardinal unconscious in hospital

A retired Polish cardinal disciplined by the Vatican in early November has been hospitalised and remains unconscious, Polish media reported. Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz, the 97-year-old retired archbishop of Wroclaw, was banned from all public appearances and ordered to compensate his alleged victims, after being investigated for sexual abuse, the Vatican nunciature in Warsaw said on... Read More

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November 8, 2020

Lebanese cardinal: Country’s ‘political authority has murdered its people’

Lebanon’s “political authority has murdered its people,” Cardinal Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch, said at the closing Mass of the synod of Maronite Catholic bishops from around the world. “The authority has killed its people economically, financially, and in terms of living and development. It thrust them into a state of loss, anger, despair, revolution, emigration... Read More

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November 7, 2020

Chile’s cardinal appointment coincides with country’s political change

Cardinal-designate Celestino Aós Braco will take on his new role at one of the most critical times for Chile and its Church in the past three decades. The 75-year-old archbishop of Santiago received word about his elevation to the College of Cardinals on 25thOctober, the same day Chileans voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to rewrite the country’s... Read More

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November 6, 2020

First cardinal for Rwanda seen as approval of Church’s reconciliation role

Pope Francis’ appointment of a cardinal for Rwanda – a first – is seen as appreciation for the efforts of the Catholic Church to reconcile people after the country’s 1994 genocide. Cardinal-designate Antoine Kambanda of Kigali, Rwanda, will turn 62 on 10th November. He is known to be passionate about peace and reconciliation, and he recently stressed that the... Read More

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October 31, 2020

Italian cardinal-designate got start on Rome’s rough streets

Cardinal-designate Paolo Lojudice’s work in Rome’s rough outskirts earned him such titles as “street priest,” “bishop of the Roma” community, and Pope Francis even told him the word was that he was the toughest bishop in the capital. But the 56-year-old, who now is archbishop of the medieval Tuscan city of Siena, said he is... Read More

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October 30, 2020

Malaysia’s first cardinal dies at the age of 88

Malaysia’s first and only cardinal, Cardinal Anthony Soter Fernandez, died on 28th October at the age of 88. A hospital assistant from the age of 15 until he entered seminary 11 years later, he became a priest in 1966 at the age of 34 and focused on catechism and priestly formation while teaching at an interdiocesan... Read More

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October 28, 2020

An outpouring of support for first African American cardinal-designate for US

They came in tweets, news releases and Instagram posts from old friends, women religious and brother bishops in various languages congratulating Washington’s Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory. The news of the country’s first African American prelate to be elevated to the rank of cardinal on 28th November sparked joy, as well as commentary that it was something that should have happened... Read More

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October 12, 2020

Beatified teen showed that heaven is ‘attainable goal’, cardinal says

Thousands sang and applauded as Italian teen Carlo Acutis was beatified in a town dear to him and to many Christians around the world: Assisi. During the 10th October beatification Mass, Italian Cardinal Agostino Vallini, the papal legate for the Basilicas of St Francis and St Mary of the Angels in Assisi, read Pope Francis’ apostolic letter proclaiming Acutis’ “blessed”, the... Read More

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October 12, 2020

French cardinal says book royalties to go to abuse victims

A French cardinal who resigned as archbishop of Lyon after being acquitted of failing to report clerical sex abuse said the royalties from his new book would go to abuse victims. Cardinal Philippe Barbarin told France’s RTL radio that the Archdiocese of Lyon would distribute the money. “I’m not benefiting personally and I’m happy to do anything which helps the victims,” he said... Read More

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