Vatican Makes Known the Words the Pope Said to Cardinals at the End of the Consistory

Jan 11, 2026 07:08

ZENIT Staff

end of the Extraordinary Consistory Photo: Vatican Media

Cardinals and Bishops•Pope Leo XIV

These are the three topics the Pope will address with cardinals in his first consistory

The announcement, confirmed on 20 December by the Holy See Press Office, puts an end to weeks of speculation in Vatican circles

Dec 22, 2025 15:15

Elizabeth Owens

Cardinals and Bishops•Local Church•Pope Leo XIV

This is the new Catholic bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV for London: he is from Africa, enjoys horse riding, and was a soldier

Born in 1958 in Chingola, in what was then Northern Rhodesia and is now Zambia, Richard Moth grew up in Kent after his family returned to England. His vocation emerged early, influenced by parish life and a priest whose personal holiness left a lasting impression

Dec 22, 2025 15:12

Elizabeth Owens

Cardinals and Bishops•Local Church

Five years in El Salvador and disciple of Cardinal Cupich: this is the new archbishop of New York

For New York, the change closes a highly distinctive chapter and opens a quieter, but potentially transformative one. Hicks steps into a city defined by migration, diversity, and contradiction, where the Church’s credibility will depend less on rhetoric than on presence

Dec 18, 2025 11:14

Tim Daniels

Cardinals and Bishops•Local Church•Religious Freedom

This is how the Venezuelan dictatorship revoked the cardinal’s passport and prevented him from leaving the country

For now, Cardinal Porras remains in Caracas, deprived of his documents and unable to fulfill obligations abroad

Dec 11, 2025 16:04

Enrique Villegas

Cardinals and Bishops

Cardinal Kurt Koch Is Appointed President of Aid to the Church in Need

Cardinal Koch, 75, succeeds Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, who led ACN for 14 years as its first President, following its elevation to the status of a Foundation of Pontifical Right.

Nov 27, 2025 22:44

ZENIT Staff

Under the agreement with China, Leo XIV appoints a new bishop

Chang Yanfeng, 42, was ordained bishop today under the Sino-Holy See agreement to a diocese that has been without its own pastor for 20 years. Just three weeks ago, the new prelate had to publicly commit the local Church to a controversial law designed to eliminate minorities.

Leo XIV encourages religious to view community life as a source of inspiration and sanctification

Message from Leo XIV to the Conference of Major Superiors of Men’s Religious Orders in the United States

Vatican Makes Known the Words the Pope Said to Cardinals at the End of the Consistory

Cardinals will return to Rome for a new Consistory in June 2026 requested by Pope Leo XIV

“It is not the Church that attracts, but Christ”: Pope Leo XIV’s first speech (translated into English) to a consistory of cardinals

León XIV to cardinals: “We gather not to promote personal or group “agendas”

“Peter (The Pope) must not be unaccompanied”: Cardinal Radcliffe’s complete meditation in English to the cardinals in the Consistory

Liturgy and the Roman Curia are left out as topics for Leo XIV’s first consistory: this was discussed

Muslim radicals call for the execution of a cardinal in Iraq

These are the three topics the Pope will address with cardinals in his first consistory

This is the new Catholic bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV for London: he is from Africa, enjoys horse riding, and was a soldier

Five years in El Salvador and disciple of Cardinal Cupich: this is the new archbishop of New York

This is how the Venezuelan dictatorship revoked the cardinal’s passport and prevented him from leaving the country

Cardinal Kurt Koch Is Appointed President of Aid to the Church in Need