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 ...

Though associated closely with Francis’ pontificate, Parolin is much more demure in personality and diplomatic in his ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin is the leader of the 2025 papal conclave, which will elect the next pope after the passing of Pope ...

Italy’s Pietro Parolin leads odds on the Polymarket and Kalshi betting platforms, while Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines ...

One such recent occasion was when the late Pope suggested last year that Israel's military campaign in Gaza might amount to ...

He served as the Vatican's Secretary of State during Francis's papacy, having already replaced him at some events during his ...

Caffè Centrale, on the main drag of the Veneto hometown of Cardinal Pietro Parolin, a papal favorite, filled up with locals ...

With Pietro Parolin among the most likely candidates, the possibility of a Secretary of State ascending to the papal throne ...

Pope Leo XIV—the American Robert Francis Prevost—was a close ally of Pope Francis. The two share many of the same views on ...

There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile.” That means they possess the ...

Cardinal Prevost overtook the favorite, Italian Cardinal Parolin, during a historic conclave.