Once-powerful Vatican official Cardinal Angelo Becciu has formally withdrawn from participating in the conclave to elect a ...

Becciu was once an influential Vatican chief of staff who was a leading papal contender himself. But he fell from grace in 2020 due to financial misconduct allegations ...

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

A religious reporter explains why the Italian cardinal at the heart of the Vatican’s “trial of the century” announced on ...

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

The head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has died. We take a look at his legacy and how the church will choose the next ...

Once a candidate with a two-thirds majority is elected, the Dean, currently Cardinal Giovanni Batista Re, will ask him if he ...