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Pope Francis has raised 13 new cardinals to the highest rank in the Catholic hierarchy during a formal ceremony marked from beginning to end by the coronavirus pandemic

Pope Francis elevated Archbishop of Washington Wilton Gregory to cardinal. Gregory is the first African American in Catholic history to hold the rank. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

Pope Francis will elevate Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory to a cardinal, making Gregory the first Black cardinal in the U.S. News4’s Derrick Ward explains the significance of the appointment, and has reaction from Washington Catholics.

An NBC survey tackles questions Catholics have grappled with for years. Investigative Reporter Jodie Fleischer reports on the answers and reaction to them.

The retired Vatican diplomat who accused Pope Francis of turning a blind eye to the alleged sexual misconduct of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is begging the American to publicly repent for his crimes for the good of the Catholic Church.

Italy’s government declared a state of emergency Thursday in flood-ravaged Venice, seeking to release funds to repair the historic lagoon city after it was damaged by the highest tide in 50 years. A cabinet meeting approved a special decree that included 20 million euros ($21.7 million) in immediate financial aid aimed at helping the city recover. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte...

Former U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis is laughing off an insult hurled at him by President Donald Trump. Speaking at a New York charity event Thursday the day after Trump demeaned him as “the world’s most overrated general,” Mattis joked that he took it as a compliment. “I’m not just an overrated general. I’m the greatest, the world’s most overrated,”...

Baby Archie made a rare public appearance on Wednesday as his parents, Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, continued their first official tour as a family in South Africa. Meghan held Archie as the royal couple met with Nobel Peace Prize winner and Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Cape Town. The youngest member of Britain’s royal family had been...

Hundreds of people of different religions came together in D.C. Sunday for a Unity Walk. News4’s Darcy Spencer explains what organizers hoped they would take away from the experience.

An Australian appeals court Wednesday upheld convictions against Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic to be found guilty of sexually abusing children, in a decision cheered by scores of abuse survivors and victims’ advocates demonstrating outside the court. A unanimous jury in December found Pope Francis’ former finance minister guilty of molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in Melbourne’s St. Patrick’s...

The Indianapolis archbishop has forced a Catholic high school to fire a gay teacher, just days after another school in the city defied a similar order despite church officials saying they would no longer recognize it as Catholic.

The Greek Orthodox church of the United States, a far-flung denomination of 1.5-million members, on Saturday installed its first new leader in 20 years — a lifelong European whose top priority is completing construction of a shrine in New York City linked to the Sept. 11 attacks. Elpidophoros Lambriniadis, 51, a native of Istanbul and a longtime theology professor in...

Hundreds of boxes. Millions of records. From Michigan to New Mexico this month, attorneys general are sifting through files on clergy sex abuse, seized through search warrants and subpoenas at dozens of archdioceses. They’re looking to prosecute, and not just priests. If the boxes lining the hallways of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s offices contain enough evidence, she said, she...

After formally being installed on Tuesday, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory celebrated his first Sunday Mass as the first African-American leader of Washington, D.C.’s Catholic community.

Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has become the first African-American leader of the capital’s Catholics. He celebrated his first Mass on Sunday. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

The Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., installed its first African-American archbishop on Tuesday.

Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory officially became the first ever African-American Archbishop of Washington. News4’s David Culver reports.

Archbishop Wilton Gregory will be installed as the first African-American leader for the archdiocese of Washington on Tuesday. The Church hopes he can help the archdiocese move past some recent sex abuse cover-up scandals.

Three brothers who were sexually abused by a priest from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Vatican, claiming the Holy See bears responsibility because the case was mishandled by former Archbishop John Nienstedt and the Vatican’s former ambassador to the United States. The lawsuit attempts to trace a direct line from clergy...

A Minnesota lawsuit seeks to force the Vatican to release the names and files of all clergy worldwide accused of abuse. The plaintiffs are five men, all survivors of clergy abuse, including three brothers who say their abuser is former St. Paul priest.