This meeting was called at the initiative of the cardinal in response to some members being frustrated by his absence from a meeting scheduled for last week. “I’m not known in the Church for being a ...

German Catholic Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller referred to Charlie Kirk as “a martyr for Jesus Christ” and condemned the ...

Cardinals are often welcome visitors to the garden. Not only do they sing a beautiful song, but many offer a bit of visual ...

(RNS) — Sri Lankan Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has taken the lead in keeping women away from the altar. Last October, he decreed that there would be no female altar servers in his archdiocese. No matter ...

Plumage is a term that refers to the characteristics of a bird's feathers. Shown here is the normal plumage of an adult northern cardinal. The female northern cardinal is often thought of as not ...

At the end of January, I heard a northern cardinal sing. Birdy, birdy, birdy. What cheer, cheer, cheer. A crimson-red male sat at the top of the tree and sent out his advertisement to a nearby female.

Editor's note: The video above is from Feb. 2021, and features Andrea Tims who runs a bird sanctuary in Maine. A Pennsylvania man hopped on Facebook, ecstatic to tell everyone he knew about the ...

Cardinal Victor Fernández, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, announced that the female diaconate will be the subject of a more in-depth study under the impetus of the ...