His consistory brings the number of voting-age cardinals well over the 120-man limit set by St. John Paul II. But 13 existing cardinals will turn 80 next year, bringing the numbers back down. This ...

Francis also convened a consistory, or a formal meeting of cardinals, to set the dates for the future canonizations. Francis regularly approves decrees from the Vatican’s saint-making office when he ...

As Pope Francis remains hospitalised with double pneumonia, the Vatican says his condition is improving, but his prognosis remains uncertain.

He addressed a consistory of cardinals on the subject of family as part of the synod of bishops examining issues ranging from divorce to contraception to homosexuality and in vitro fertilization.

Stranger still, he said, was that Francis’ predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, announced his resignation at the same meeting of cardinals, called a consistory, that was also discussing the ...

Francis has called a "consistory", or meeting of cardinals, for the proclamation of new saints. Pope Francis has been in hospital with double pneumonia for 14 days -- the longest hospitalisation ...

A number of government officials formally congratulated Archbishop Franjo Seper of Zagreb after the announcement that he would be made a cardinal at Pope Paul’s consistory next week. Monsignor ...

"I am pleased to announce to you that on December 8 I will hold a consistory for the nomination of new cardinals," the pope declared as he delivered his Angelus prayer on St Peter's Square.

Once Roman Catholic cardinals, upon elevation to the title, humbly kissed the Pope’s foot and afterwards lay prostrate before an altar while solemn prayers were said for them. Last week ...

But the calling of a consistory — i.e., a formal meeting of cardinals — has raised questions over what else the pontiff might want to discuss with the clergymen. As noted by the U.S ...