Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Italian Pietro Parolin is the favourite to be elected pope - TIZIANA FABI/AFP An Italian cardinal once tainted by a secret deal ...

‘Carlo is a new pearl of this city of saints and a great gift for the Church: May his witness bear abundant fruits of holiness among young people,’ the cardinal said at a feast-day Mass attended by ...

Each day between now and the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis, on a date yet to be set, John Allen is offering a profile of a different papabile, the Italian term for a man who could be ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's Secretary of State for the last 12 years and its top diplomat, has emerged on nearly every shortlist as an obvious papal contender. White smoke has billowed from ...

JD Vance calls his meeting with Vatican officials right before Pope Francis died ‘unsettling’ in new book - The vice ...

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin reportedly suffered a small health scare this week during a general congregation meeting with his fellow papal electors. Outlets in Italy and abroad ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, said on Wednesday it would be premature to discuss sanctions against the German bishops for blessings of same-sex couples. Cardinal Parolin, ...

Pope Leo XIV greets visitors as he rides in the popemobile around St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican May 28, 2025, ahead of his weekly general audience. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, former Vatican secretary of state, celebrates Mass on the second day of the "novendiali" -- nine days of mourning for Pope Francis marked by Masses -- in St. Peter's Square at ...

Father Maurice El Khoury, left, leads Sunday Mass inside a room usually used as a residence for visiting bishops next to St. George Melkite Catholic Church, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike ...