Pope Benedict XVI appointed 22, and John Paul II, 5. Cardinal from California could be the next Pope. Robert Walter McElroy was Cardinal and Bishop of San Diego until ... when Pope Urban VI, ...

Pope Leo XIV met the College of Cardinals in the New Synod Hall at the Vatican. AP. I had to reply that, in all honesty, I did not know him. I knew of him, of course, and what I had heard had ...

The number of cardinal electors is limited to 120, according to a rule by Pope Paul VI in 1975, according to the Catholic News Service, though Popes John Paul II, Benedict and Francis, regularly ...

Pope Benedict XVI appointed 22, and John Paul II, 5. Cardinal from California could be the next Pope. ... That has been the case since 1378, when Pope Urban VI, Archbishop of Bari, ...

John Paul II, at 58, was ... Newly elected Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, ... Pope Paul VI was the last to wear the triregnum, during his installation in 1963.

Cardinal Robert Francis Provost, ... Only cardinals under 80 could vote in the conclave that elects a new pope — a rule established in 1970 by Pope Paul VI to encourage the selection of ...

Pope Paul VI set a rule in 1975 limiting the number of cardinal electors to 120, a norm that wasn’t strictly adhered to in the College of Cardinals meetings known as consistories.

Made a cardinal in 1973 by Pope Paul VI, Medeiros was called to Rome in August 1978 to choose Paul VI’s successor. At the time he heard of Paul VI’s death, ...

Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny, one of the four Jesuits who will vote in the conclave, told Gerry that it should not matter what country the next pope comes from. “It’s time for the ...

Pope Benedict XVI made Burke a cardinal in 2010, ... He was ordained by Pope Paul VI in Rome in 1975 and entered the Holy See’s diplomatic service in 1980.

Made a cardinal in 1973 by Pope Paul VI, Medeiros was called to Rome in August 1978 to choose Paul VI’s successor. At the time he heard of Paul VI’s death, ...