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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Could the Roman Catholic Church return to its long tradition of Italian popes? For the first time since the death of John Paul I ...

As the news of Pope Francis' passing spread across the globe in the last 24 hours, the world mourned the loss of a progressive leader. He was at the forefront of many changes in the Catholic Church, ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As expected, black smoke emerged from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, where cardinals cast their first votes on Wednesday (May 7), a sign to onlookers in St.

Catholic Church has not had an Italian pope in 47 years At least three Italian cardinals seen as papal candidates Italians have about 14% of conclave vote, but seem divided VATICAN CITY, May 1 ...

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 ...

CatholicVote, the conservative political operation run by President Trump's pick as ambassador to the Vatican, is in a war of finger-pointing with the Italian media over a fake report seemed aimed to ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's Secretary of State for the last 12 years and its top diplomat, has emerged on nearly every ...