ROME (CNS) — As Catholics in Rome await the election of their new bishop, the pope, some of them celebrated Sunday Mass at their parishes with the cardinals who will enter a conclave May 7. When prelates are made cardinals, they are assigned a “titular” parish in Rome, which makes them members of the clergy…
ROME (CNS) — An AI-generated image of U.S. President Donald Trump dressed as the pope “was not good,” Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York said in Rome. “I hope he didn’t have anything to do with that,” he told reporters before he entered Our Lady of Guadalupe Church where he celebrated Mass May 4.…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain and the Sistine Chapel usually top the “must see” list of visitors to Rome and the Vatican. But as 133 of the world’s cardinals prepared to enter the conclave May 7 to elect the new pope, the Sistine Chapel was closed to visitors April 28. In…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As the Catholic Church elects a new pope, a cardinal reminded his fellow electors that true Christian leadership begins not in control, but in surrender to mystery. “We so often feel like masters of God, perfect knowers of the truth, while we are only pilgrims to whom the Word has been…
ROME (CNS) — The rules and rituals for the election of a new pope say that immediately after his election, he goes into the sacristy of the Sistine Chapel and puts on “the garments that are appropriate to him.” That’s all that is written. For more than 100 year that meant that the Gammarelli family’s…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As the Catholic Church’s cardinals prepare to elect a new pope, they must be wary of “elegant speeches” that hide a subtle cruelty toward the poor and vulnerable, said the Vatican’s former doctrinal chief. Celebrating a memorial Mass for Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica May 1, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández,…