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The archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, speaks to EWTN News on Friday, April 25, 2025, at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. / Credit: EWTN News/screenshotWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 5, 2025 / 14:57 pm (CNA).Catholic leaders and some members of the Church hierarchy in the United States have criticized President Donald Trump for sharing an AI-generated image of himself dressed as a pope.Trump, who frequently shares memes of himself on social media, posted the image to Truth Social on Friday after joking that he would like to be chosen as the next pope. The White House subsequently posted the photo on its official X account.The social media posts came just days after the president said he would "like to be pope" when a reporter asked him who he hopes is selected for the papacy in the upcoming papal conclave. As part of his response to that same question, he went on to say he actually had "no preference" while also touting Cardinal Timothy Dol...
Cardinal Dominique Mamberti celebrates the ninth Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis on the third Sunday of Easter, May 4, 2025, at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNAVatican City, May 4, 2025 / 19:58 pm (CNA).On the ninth and final day of Novendiales, the nine days of mourning for Pope Francis, French Cardinal Dominique Mamberti reflected on the papal mission to love and serve Christ and his Church.The mission of a pope "is love itself, which becomes service to the Church and to all humanity," the cardinal said in St. Peter's Basilica.The Mass for the ninth and last of the Novendiales was celebrated for the third Sunday of Easter.In his homily, Mamberti, who was the prefect of the supreme tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, the Vatican's final court of appeal, since 2014, spoke about the day's Gospel passage, in which Jesus asks St. Peter three times if he loves him, calling on him to "feed my lambs" and "tend my sheep.""Love is the key word of this...
Cardinals celebrate the ninth Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis on the third Sunday of Easter, May 4, 2025, at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNACNA Newsroom, May 4, 2025 / 20:07 pm (CNA).The conclave to elect Pope Francis' successor will begin on May 7, as the Church enters the final preparatory phase for choosing its 267th pope.Follow here for live updates of the latest news and information on the papal transition:
Cardinal Dominique Mamberti delivers his homily during the ninth Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis on the third Sunday of Easter, May 4, 2025, at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNAVatican City, May 4, 2025 / 20:28 pm (CNA).Editor's Note: On May 4, 2025, Cardinal Dominique Mamberti, the former prefect of the prefect of the supreme tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, delivered the following homily during the ninth day of Novendiales Masses for Pope Francis. The text below is a CNA working translation of the Italian original published by the Vatican.Venerable cardinal fathers, dear brothers in the episcopate and in the priesthood, dear brothers and sisters:The Liturgy of the Word of this last Novendial in suffrage of Pope Francis is that of the third Sunday of Easter, and the passage from John's Gospel just proclaimed represents the encounter of the resurrected Jesus with some apostles and disciples at the Sea of Tiberias, which ends with the mission...
Cardinals participate in the fifth Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis on April 30, 2025, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNAVatican City, May 4, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA).On May 7, an expected 133 cardinal electors will enter the Sistine Chapel to elect the new Roman pontiff, the successor to Pope Francis, who shied away from giving red hats to the traditional archdioceses but opted to give the honor to far-flung places, many of which had never had a cardinal before.Of the 133 cardinals with the right to vote in this conclave, 108 were created by Pope Francis and therefore will be participating in the election of a pontiff for the first time.Compared with the 2013 conclave that chose Pope Francis, none of the major sees typically headed by a cardinal will be represented this time around, including the archdioceses of Sydney, Vienna, Genoa, Paris, Milan, Palermo, Armagh, and Krakow.Pope Francis' choice of cardinals from nontraditional countries and see...
Cardinals participate in the eighth Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis on May 3, 2025 — the feast of Sts. Philip and James — in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNACNA Newsroom, May 3, 2025 / 18:21 pm (CNA).The conclave to elect Pope Francis' successor will begin on May 7, as the Church enters the final preparatory phase for choosing its 267th pope.Follow here for live updates of the latest news and information on the papal transition:
Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime incenses the altar at the eighth Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica, Saturday, May 3, 2025 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNACNA Newsroom, May 3, 2025 / 14:00 pm (CNA).Pope Francis desired that consecrated Catholic men and women possess "a heart and a spirit pure and free enough" to love and serve the least among us, Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime said at the eighth Novendiales Mass on Saturday.The prelate, the former prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, celebrated, and delivered the homily at, the second-to-last Mass held in mourning for the Holy Father, who passed away on April 21. Praying for the dead, the cardinal said during the homily at St. Peter's Basilica, is "the greatest work of charity." Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime speaks at the eighth Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis at St. Peter's Basilica, Saturday, May 3, 2025. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA"When we help...
Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime speaks at the eighth Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis at St. Peter's Basilica, Saturday, May 3, 2025 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNAVatican City, May 3, 2025 / 14:30 pm (CNA).Editor's Note: On May 3, 2025, Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, the former prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, delivered the following homily during the 8th day of Novendiales Masses for Pope Francis. The text below is a CNA working translation of the Italian original published by the Vatican.Dearest Sisters and Brothers,St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori teaches that praying for the dead is the greatest work of charity. When we help our neighbors materially, we share ephemeral goods, but when we pray for them we do so with eternal goods. In a similar way lived the Holy Curé of Ars, universal patron of priests.To pray for the dead means, therefore, to love those who have died, and that is what we are doing now for Pope F...
Cardinals participate in the fifth Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis on April 30, 2025, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNACNA Newsroom, May 3, 2025 / 10:09 am (CNA).The conclave to elect Pope Francis' successor will begin on May 7, as the Church enters the final preparatory phase for choosing its 267th pope.Follow here for live updates of the latest news and information on the papal transition:
Cardinal Francis Arinze speaks to EWTN News on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNAVatican City, May 3, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).Cardinal Francis Arinze has said that the Church needs "a pope who is full of fire for the kingdom of Christ." In an interview with EWTN earlier this year, the 92-year-old cardinal reflected on the qualities needed in the next pope, offered wisdom to younger cardinals who will enter their first conclave, and spoke of the challenges facing the Church today. "We want a pope who is full of fire for the kingdom of Christ," the Nigerian cardinal said. "A pope who is there spreading the Gospel. … A pope through whom people will believe." Cardinal Francis Arinze speaks to EWTN News on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNAFor Arinze, who has served as a bishop for 60 years and a cardinal for 40, the next successor of St. Peter must above all be a witness to Christ, a pope whose "life is powerful." "The biggest chal...
