Named to lead New York's vast Catholic diocese, Edward Egan was elevated to cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2001. Look back ...
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 ...
Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, apostolic administrator of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington and the first and only African American Cardinal, observed Black History Month by serving as guest ...