Read more about the article Creating cardinals from 16 nations, pope asks them to join church ‘symphony’
Pope Francis places a red biretta on the head of new Cardinal Christophe Pierre, nuncio to the United States, during a consistory for the creation of 21 new cardinals in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sept. 30, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Creating cardinals from 16 nations, pope asks them to join church ‘symphony’

‘We have the Holy Spirit as our master: the interior master of each one of us and the master of walking together’

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Read more about the article Bishops must promote communion, unity with pope, new U.S. cardinal says
Chicago-born Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, greets a bishop in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican after Pope Francis made him a cardinal Sept. 30, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Bishops must promote communion, unity with pope, new U.S. cardinal says

‘There’s been a development in the sense of the need for the Church to open and to be welcoming’

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Read more about the article Before synod retreat, pope prays for listening instead of polarization
Pope Francis, Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury and the Rev. Ann Burghardt, general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation, and other Christian representatives stand in front of the San Damiano cross, in front of which St. Francis of Assisi said he heard Jesus tell him to "rebuild my church," at an ecumenical prayer service Sept. 30, 2023, in St. Peter's Square. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Before synod retreat, pope prays for listening instead of polarization

‘Silence is fundamental to prayer, and ecumenism begins with prayer and is sterile without it’

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Read more about the article Hundreds stand in line to greet new cardinals from the ‘peripheries’
Cardinal Stephen Chow Sau-yan of Hong Kong greets well-wishers in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican after a consistory where Pope Francis made him and 20 other prelates cardinals Sept. 30, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Hundreds stand in line to greet new cardinals from the ‘peripheries’

‘I never dreamed this would happen’

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Read more about the article New cardinals say building church unity is urgent need
Cardinal-designate Christophe Pierre, nuncio to the United States, talks with CNS at the Vatican. Sept. 29, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

New cardinals say building church unity is urgent need

‘Every pope, during Vatican II and after Vatican II, embraced continuity in the renewal and reform of the one subject, the Church, and we have to get this into our heads, otherwise we are not Catholics’

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Read more about the article New cardinals bring experience of ‘peripheries’ to universal Church
Pope Francis places a red biretta on the head of new Cardinal Stephen Chow Sau-yan of Hong Kong, during a consistory for the creation of 21 new cardinals in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sept. 30, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

New cardinals bring experience of ‘peripheries’ to universal Church

‘The important thing is to have more diverse voices’

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Read more about the article 18 U.S. seminarians ordained deacons in St. Peter’s Basilica
Eighteen newly ordained deacons from Rome's Pontifical North American College pose for a group photo after their ordination Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Sept. 28, 2023. Dressed in red are U.S. Cardinals Edwin F. O'Brien, Raymond L. Burke and James M. Harvey. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

18 U.S. seminarians ordained deacons in St. Peter’s Basilica

Nashville seminarian David Lee among the ordained

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Read more about the article Vatican asks U.N. Security Council to join efforts for peace in Ukraine
Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, the Vatican’s foreign minister, addresses the U.N. Security Council during a meeting in New York Sept. 20, 2023. CNS screengrab/United Nations

Vatican asks U.N. Security Council to join efforts for peace in Ukraine

‘If this war is not stopped and peace is not sought at every turn, the whole world risks plunging into even deeper crises’

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