The United States counts 10 cardinals among the 133 eligible to vote for the successor to Pope Francis, including two from the tri-state area. Only four of the American electors actively serve as ...
The first dinner of the conclave was, in a word, forgettable. "Rather plain," recalled Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey. After hours cloistered inside the Sistine Chapel on May 7, with the ...
Pope Leo XIV intends to call all of the world’s cardinals to Rome in January for what’s called an “extraordinary consistory,” which popes use to let cardinals know their plans and to ask for advice.