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.

A consistory is a gathering of cardinals, which the Pope can convoke to give solemnity to a particular decision, or simply to ask his "Senate" to counsel him on an important issue. However, the most ...

The 74-year-old cardinal from the Italian island region of Sardinia was once one of the most powerful men in the Vatican before he was investigated for financial wrongdoing and charged with crimes ...

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 cases and all the ...

In this Feb. 21, 1998 file photo, Cardinals are seen during a Consistory in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican. Pope Francis has named 17 new cardinals _ 13 of them under age 80 and thus eligible to ...

A consistory can always be approached from a variety of angles, and in the case of today’s elevation of 23 new cardinals by Pope Benedict XVI, one could make a good case for dubbing it “the consistory ...

(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 ...

The establishment of two new congregations—the first for Laity-Family Life, the second for Charity-Justice-Peace, which includes a new office for ecology—were among the proposals for reform of the ...