In creating 20 new cardinals – 15 of whom will be cardinal electors – Pope Francis has continued to set his sights on the world's peripheries, and at the same time he began designing the College of ...

In the coming months, Pope Francis is expected to approve a final draft of a new governing constitution for the Roman Curia. Evangelium praedicate, as it is expected to be called, will mark the ...

Almost half of the Roman Curia’s most important departments are currently led by prelates past the recommended retirement age of 75. Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for the ...

Editor's note: Richard Gaillardetz, a noted ecclesiologist and former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, reviewed the draft of Praedicate Evangelium obtained by NCR and offers ...

VATICAN CITY — The curial revolution seems to be on pause — though it is not clear for how long. After the new Vatican constitution Praedicate evangelium went into force on June 5, Pope Francis was ...

ROME – With Pope Francis remaining in critical condition fighting a complex respiratory infection and bilateral pneumonia, the cardinals and curial officials in Rome have organized a rosary and ...