The ideological center of the wealthiest and most powerful country would appear to justify a cardinal. But there are many ...

Cardinal James Francis Stafford was at left; Wilton Gregory, president of the United States Catholic Bishops’ Conference, was at right.Credit...Pier Paolo Cito/Associated Press Other sexual ...

Is it time a pope names a cardinal from Florida ... its bellwether power-ranking in America appears much humbler. The United States accounts for just 4% of the world's Catholics, a figure further ...

At first glance, the answer to the question of who speaks for the Catholic Church in the United States seems obvious ... national threat.” Cardinal Robert McElroy, the newly installed Archbishop ...

Theodore McCarrick, a once-powerful Catholic cardinal who was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after a Vatican investigation ...

“The United States is just 6 per cent of the Catholic world. So 94 per cent doesn’t have that.” Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, from the US, and Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, from ...

The initiative vets cardinals who are considered contenders ... of the network’s global policy working group. “The United States is just 6% of the Catholic world. So 94% doesn’t have that ...

The former cardinal and archbishop deftly managed to fend off abuse accusations for decades — and never publicly repented ...