Ralph Fiennes was hanging out with a Catholic cardinal. The “English Patient” actor was preparing for his next role, as Cardinal Thomas Lawrence in the pope movie “Conclave,” in theaters ...

Other names in the mix include Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, 65, archbishop of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo; Bishop Anders Arborelius, 75, of Stockholm, who is Sweden’s ...

A New Jerseyan has joined the Supreme Court -- but not the one in D.C., a higher one. Last month, Pope Francis appointed Joseph Cardinal Tobin, Archbishop of Newark, to the Vatican’s Apostolic ...

In Rome's St. Peter's Basilica four new princes of the church, clad in magnificent scarlet robes, knelt last week to receive from Pope John their red hats, symbolic of their elevation to the ...

Those sanctions, which Cipriani accepted and signed off on just before turning 75, apparently barred him wearing his red cardinal robes and other symbols associated with the cardinalate, from ...

Another cardinal considered a leading contender to assume the miter is Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle, 67, of the Philippines, often called the “Asian Francis” for his liberal leanings. If elected ...