VATICAN CITY — Under the Code of Canon Law, reformed in 1983, there are two types of consistories of cardinals: ordinary and extraordinary. An extraordinary consistory is celebrated in particular ...

Pope Francis presided Monday at a consistory for the canonization of seven blesseds. The Ordinary Public Consistory took place at 10 a.m. local time May 3 in the Consistory Hall of the Apostolic ...

Cardinals are the pope’s closest assistants and advisers, from all around the world. A consistory is a formal meeting of the College of Cardinals. The pope can convene them for a number of reasons.

(RNS) — The new cardinals include Ukrainian and Palestinian prelates as well as priests who have spoken in favor of promoting women and LGBTQ+ Catholics. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis will make 21 ...

ROME – A consistory, the event in which a pope creates new cardinals, is always a carefully choreographed bit of theater, with production values rivaling any Broadway musical. In that spirit, if the ...

Raniero Mancinelli, 85, the tailor who dresses popes and cardinals, poses in his store, Aug. 25, 2022. (Credit: Ines San Martin/Crux.) Listen ROME — In the land of Prada and Dolce & Gabbana, fashion ...

Pope Pius is likely to call a new consistory early next year. With the death last week of Adeodato Cardinal Piazza, 73, the number of cardinals who have-died since the last consistory in 1953 rose to ...

Pope Francis will hold the first of three extraordinary meetings of the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church on Saturday as speculation about his possible retirement continues. The supreme pontiff ...

Marianna resident Leo Sims, a member of the C. H. Henry Consistory No.71 of Marianna and Quincy, recently wrote a tribute to the man for whom that consistory was named, for use in celebrating Black ...

Catholic bishops have lauded India’s pro-Hindu government for sending a delegation to attend the consistory of Cardinal-designate George Jacob Koovakad in the Vatican on Dec. 7. “This is a welcome ...