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3 days ago | catholicphilly.com | Cindy Wooden

ROME (CNS) — While it is interesting and perhaps even a point of pride that the new Pope Leo XIV was born in the United States, most of the U.S.-based cardinals who participated in the conclave that elected him said nationality was not a factor. “I think the impact of him being an American was almost negligible in the deliberations of the conclave and surprisingly so,” Cardinal Robert W.

1 week ago | catholicphilly.com | Junno Arocho Esteves

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — On the eve of the conclave that will decide the next pontiff, the ring and lead seal of the late Pope Francis were destroyed in the presence of members of the College of Cardinals in the Vatican’s New Synod Hall. In a video released by the Vatican May 6, an unidentified woman scratched a cross on the papal ring, known as the fisherman’s ring, as well as on a lead seal bearing the papal insignia used to mark Pope Francis’ letters.

1 week ago | catholicphilly.com | Carol Glatz

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A former Vatican nuncio and collaborator in the Roman Curia, Sri Lankan Cardinal Albert Malcolm Ranjith, 77, has been leading the Archdiocese of Colombo since 2009. Even though he only served as secretary of the former-Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments for three-and-a-half years, it was during that time that Cardinal Ranjith became best known for his strong defense of tradition in the Catholic Mass.

2 weeks ago | catholicphilly.com | Justin Mclellan

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — True discipleship is not measured by the creeds Christians recite or the theology they know, but by how deeply they love, a cardinal said at a memorial Mass for Pope Francis.

2 weeks ago | catholicphilly.com | Carol Glatz

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When Pope Francis was elected as the first Latin American pontiff, he said his brother cardinals went out of their way to pick someone from the “ends of the earth.”He spent the rest of his pontificate going back out to those peripheries, traveling to more than 65 nations, preferring those that were poor, scarred by war, marginalized and forgotten. Then the peripheries came to him on the day of his funeral in St. Peter’s Square.