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 moderate voice.

Cardinal Parolin recalled the 2003 Iraq war, when St. John Paul II pleaded for the conflict to be avoided but “was left alone ...

Cardinal Parolin was considered “the main candidate”, a strong favourite to be the next Pope but “not a certainty”. As the Vatican’s secretary of state since 2013, 70-year-old Cardinal Parolin, from ...

‘Carlo is a new pearl of this city of saints and a great gift for the Church: May his witness bear abundant fruits of holiness among young people,’ the cardinal said at a feast-day Mass attended by ...

In a recent interview with the Italian quarterly 'Dialoghi,' Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, discusses ...

Pope Leo XIV greets visitors as he rides in the popemobile around St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican May 28, 2025, ahead of his weekly general audience. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope ...

Father Maurice El Khoury, left, leads Sunday Mass inside a room usually used as a residence for visiting bishops next to St. George Melkite Catholic Church, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike ...

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church. At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an ...

A demonstrator covered in pepper spray turns away from Department of Homeland Security agents outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Building, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in Minneapolis. Credit: RNS photo/Jack ...