Pietro Parolin could be the first Italian to serve in the papacy since 1978. The 70-year-old is known as a diplomat and a ...

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Cardinals are starting the next conclave to select the next pope on Wednesday. Here’s who AI has pegged as the potential ...

Cardinals enter a conclave on Wednesday to choose a new pope, leader of the world's 1.4 billion Roman Catholics. The secret ...

COMMENTARY: Pope Francis’ successor should address four main aspects: persecution, social doctrine, missionary withering and ...

Experts see the new pontiff as less confrontational than his predecessor, but willing to stand up for the church's teachings.

Pope Francis, who died April 23 and was buried Saturday ... who in 2009 appointed him the Vatican’s ambassador in Venezuela, where he defended the church against moves to weaken it by then-President ...

This pope will make mistakes; don’t we all? But on this day, Melinda Henneberger looks to him with great hope. | Opinion ...

All 133 cardinals eligible to elect Pope Francis’s successor have arrived in Rome for the conclave and been locked in to take ...

Political figures around the world have issued messages of congratulation to Robert Prevost, who was elected Thursday as Pope ...

Technically, any baptized Catholic man can become pope. That's not how it has historically worked, however, with the last pontiff who wasn't first a cardinal having served in the 1300s. And Pope ...

Pope Francis left a legacy as a reformist and a ... international affairs includes a stint as the Vatican's ambassador to Venezuela starting in 2009 and serving as the main architect of the ...