Pietro Parolin is widely considered to be a frontrunner for the next papacy. The 70-year-old Italian has been the Vatican's secretary of state, a role referred to as the "deputy pope", since 2013 ...

F ollowing the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday (21 April), a front-runner has emerged who bookies believe will be the next leader of the Catholic church: 70-year-old Cardinal Pietro Parolin ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin ... probably know Parolin just as well or even better than they know each other. Under Pope Francis, who died on April 21, the number of occasions all the world's cardinals ...

Pope Leo XIV welcomed Javier Milei and reportedly agreed to visit Argentina. Leo's predecessor Francis was an Argentine who ...

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin reportedly ... rising tensions as the election of the pope draws ever closer. Whether or not Parolin collapsed inside the Vatican, there's ...

Guesses about who the next Roman Catholic pope will be often prove inaccurate ... a return to a more traditional style. Cardinals Pietro Parolin of Italy and Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle of the ...

The College of Cardinals is preparing to lock down in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel to vote for the next pope ... for frontrunner between Italy’s Pietro Parolin and the Philippines’ Luis ...

Pope Leo XIV is willing to host peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv, yet Russia's stance towards the Vatican is likely to ...