For the past 20 years, Dr. Matthew E. Bunson has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to Church history, the papacy, the saints and Catholic culture. He is faculty chair at Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co-author of over 50 books including: <em>The Encyclopedia of Catholic History</em>, <em>The Pope Encyclopedia</em>, <em>We Have a Pope! Benedict XVI</em>, <em>The Saints Encyclopedia</em> and best-selling biographies of St. Damien of Molokai and St. Kateri Tekakwitha.
Cardinal Richard Kuuia Baawobr. / Credit: Missionaries of Africa.Rome Newsroom, Nov 28, 2022 / 04:31 am (CNA).Cardinal Richard Kuuia Baawobr, bishop of Wa, Ghana, died in Rome on Sunday evening at the age of 63.The cardinal had been hospitalized for heart problems after arriving in Rome in late August, and was therefore unable to attend the Vatican ceremony at which he was elevated to the College of Cardinals Aug. 27.Baawobr died around 5:45 p.m. on Nov. 27, after being taken by ambulance to Rome s Gemelli hospital, according to a press release from André-Léon Simonart, secretary general of the Missionaries of Africa.The African cardinal was hospitalized at Santo Spirito hospital close to the Vatican from Aug. 26 to Oct. 15, when he was transferred to the larger Gemelli Polyclinic and University Hospital to receive more specialized care.On Nov. 18, he was discharged from the hospital and moved into the general house of the Society of the Missionaries of Africa, commonly known a.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope Francis will lead a number of major events at the end of August, starting with the creation of 20 new cardinals in St. Peter s Basilica.
Inducting the appointees into the College of Cardinals at an ordinary public consistory Aug. 27, the pope will give each new cardinal: a scarlet biretta the red hat whose color signifies a cardinal s willingness to shed his blood for the faith; a gold ring, a sign of their special bond with the church of Rome; and a scroll te
VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope Francis will lead a number of major events at the end of August, starting with the creation of 20 new cardinals in St. Peter's Basilica. Inducting the appointees into the College of Cardinals at an ordinary public consistory Aug. 27, the pope will give each new cardinal: a scarlet biretta the "red hat" whose color signifies a cardinal's willingness to shed his blood for the faith; a gold ring, a sign of their special bond with the church of Rome; and a scroll testifying to his new office and containing the name of his titular church in Rome.
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