It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that put an end to the longest papal election in ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa is a Vatican outsider, but his experience in a region sacred to three major religions may ...

As Catholic cardinals meet to choose a new pope, they will face a big question: Is it time, after three consecutive ...

The last Italian pope died in 1978. Now, among the papal candidates ahead of next week’s conclave, there are several Italian ...

With representatives from 70 countries across five continents, this conclave is the largest -- and the most international -- ...

He has tried to make the church’s voice heard as the Trump administration ... first to archbishop of the wealthy archdiocese of Bologna in northern Italy in 2015, before bestowing the title ...

His election reflected a broader geographical shift in the church. Although the Vatican has been Catholicism’s spiritual and ...

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that put an end to the longest papal election in the history of the Catholic Church, forging for the first time the wor ...