Cardinal Luis Tagle attending a rosary prayer at Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome on April 24, 2025
Cardinal Pietro Parolin (C) played a key role in mediating a thaw between the United States and Cuba, as well as making a key Vatican agreemen…
Spanish writer Javier Cercas, who wrote a best-selling account of his 2023 trip to Mongolia with pope Francis, says the late pope considered c…
Cardinals are holding preparatory talks in the Vatican ahead of the conclave
Many cardinals have expressed hope for a short conclave
Cardinal Cristobal Lopez wants a missionary Church pushing out especially into areas where Catholicism has few adherents
Pope Francis saw priests' embrace of the trappings of power as a "cancer" corroding the Roman Catholic Church, according to a best-selling Spanish author who travelled to Mongolia with the pontiff.
A week before the conclave to choose a new pope opens, preparatory talks intensified Wednesday as cardinals sounded out potential candidates -- with many hoping the election will be quick.
Cardinal Cristobal Lopez Romero, the Spanish-born archbishop of Rabat, admits he is a little anxious ahead of his first conclave, although also curious.