The Vatican says it will begin the process of selecting a new pope on May 7. Some 135 cardinals — all of them men under the age of 80 — will begin a closed-door meeting on that date to vote for the ...

Cuba`s top court said on Tuesday it had revoked the parole of high-profile dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer just three months ...

Becciu rose to prominence and power under conservative Pope Benedict XVI and is very much affiliated with the conservative ...

A cardinal convicted of financial crimes by the Vatican who was demanding he should be able to participate in the upcoming ...

Cardinal Angelo Becciu, once a powerful Vatican official, has formally withdrawn from participating in the conclave to elect ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” ...

When Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was elected in 2013 as Pope Francis, he was a near total Vatican outsider. He had never been a ...

Brazil's central bank said on Tuesday that credit to households continued to accelerate in the second half of 2024, ...

The cardinal, who was convicted of embezzlement in 2023 by a Vatican court of first instance, decided not to attend the ...

Building on years of appeals from Native people to Francis, the Vatican formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery,” the legal theories backed by 15th-century papal bulls decrees that legitimized ...