Sant’Onofrio al Gianicolo: A look inside Cardinal Pizzaballa’s new titular church

The church’s story includes some interesting nuggets from history

By tradition, when the pope makes a bishop a cardinal, he assigns him a titular church in the Diocese of Rome, a link back to the College of Cardinals’ roots as a consistory of the diocesan clergy in Rome.

Practically, the link with a cardinal remains important to many Roman churches themselves — while some are more modern buildings, many are historical …