What’s a consistory – and what makes this one 'extraordinary'?
Cardinals from around the world will gather in Rome this week for a meeting with Pope Leo.
Pope Leo XIV will hold the first consistory of his pontificate on Jan. 7-8, in what is expected to be the first major programmatic event of his pontificate.
The extraordinary consistory follows a papacy in which Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis, mostly refrained from holding large meetings with cardinals, something that many reportedly complained about du…