New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, an ally of President Donald Trump, played the role of "kingmaker" in the selection of Pope Leo XIV, according to a Friday report. The Italian magazine il Giornale got ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin defended the Vatican's controversial deal with China Saturday, saying that all recent popes hoped for such an agreement on the appointment of bishops. Speaking in Milan, Italy, ...