Cardinals have been an important symbol for a long before then. There are a great many positive associations attributed to the birds that any state would want to get behind. Many cultures ...

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 5 - A personable Maltese cardinal and one of the papabili (pope tips) is the prelate to whom Francis entrusted his last "creature", the synod and the path of the synodal church.

VATICAN CITY, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Pope Francis gave a funeral blessing to Cardinal George Pell on Saturday as revelations that he wrote an anonymous memo branding the current papacy a "catastrophe ...

a biography of Cardinal Thomas Winning, agrees that the O'Brien scandal still casts a shadow. "People forget that at the time he was the highest ranking figure in the Catholic Church to be sucked ...