Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa is a Vatican outsider, but his experience in a region sacred to three major religions may ...

The United States is the home country of 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope of the Catholic Church.

It’s been almost a half a century since questions could be shut down with the verity: “Is the Pope Italian?” In that time, ...

If you’re a fan of political thrillers, you may have already seen 2024’s “Conclave.” The film, which stars Ralph Fiennes, ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin attends the 150th anniversary of the arrival of Catholic missionaries in China from an Italian religious order meeting, in Milan, Italy, on Oct. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Antonio ...

VITERBO, Italy (AP) — It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that put an end to the longest papal election in the history of the Catholic Church ...

After St. John Paul II broke the centurieslong Italian hold on the papacy in 1978 ... especially on a continent where religious divisions between Christians and Muslims are common.

VITERBO, Italy (AP) — It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that put an end to the longest papal election in the history of the Catholic Church, forging for the ...

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...