Next Pope is ‘everybody’s guess’ before Cardinals gather for oath of secrecy and first vote - Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin ...

ShareToday, being 7th May 2025, about 135 cardinal electors, known as ‘Princes of the Church’, are expected to converge on ...

The papal conclave, the secretive election process to elect the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church, commences on ...

They don’t have a vote in the pope’s election, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on ...

TOPSHOT - Argentina's Jorge Bergoglio, elected Pope Francis I (C) waves from the window of St Peter's Basilica's balcony after being elected the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on March 13, ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the days leading up to the conclave, as cardinals have met in the general congregations to discuss ...

One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a ...

They don’t have a vote in the pope’s election, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on ...

But papal betting has a long history. Roman banking houses were taking bets as far back as 1503. Alessandro Damasceni Peretti ...

The largest and most geographically diverse papal conclave in history is set to commence May 7 in Rome, where cardinals will ...

The same people who questioned Jorge Bergoglio when he became Pope today celebrate him as “the most important Argentine in ...