Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako is the only cardinal from his nation. India is sending four cardinals to the conclave, the ...

Cardinal Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi ... “First and foremost, it seems Ms. Tanaka claimed that she contacted me a number of times asking to take action,” Kikuchi wrote. “It is not true at all. I do not even ...

Two of the eligible cardinal electors have informed the Holy See that they will not be able to participate in the conclave for health reasons, bringing the number ... on May 7. Japan's Cardinal ...

KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan — There may only be a few days before the College of Cardinals gathers inside the Sistine Chapel to elect the next leader of the Catholic Church, and, for the first time in ...

From there, the numbers continue to ... electors than the ostensible 120 cardinal limit. They arrived this week in Rome from countries as diverse as Hungary, Japan, Sudan, and Tonga.

The Vatican conclave will continue on Thursday with as many as four more rounds of voting. A two-thirds majority of the 133 cardinals is required to select a new leader for the world’s 1.4 billion ...

The total number of cardinal electors currently stands at 135 ... three from the Philippines, two from Japan, and one each from China, East Timor, Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia ...

THE recent conclave elected an unknown to lead 1.4 billion Catholics. But the drama of the elections will remain locked ...

About 45 minutes before the Stanford baseball team would play its home opener against Washington in late February, a group of about 10 men congregated on the steps near the Cardinal dugout down ...