Even into the modern period, naming a foreign cleric as cardinal was taken as a measure of the importance of their country in the Catholic world. For example, the first American cardinal ...
American Cardinal James Harvey opened the Holy Door at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, completing the opening of all five Holy Doors in Rome for the Catholic Church’s ...
women and L.G.B.T.Q. people in the Catholic church and in the United States. He will succeed Cardinal Wilton Gregory, 77, the first African-American to be made a cardinal, a member of the church ...
the first African American cardinal. Gregory’s long career inside the church includes overseeing the landmark Dallas Charter, an agreement crafted after the Catholic sexual abuse scandals ...