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

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, ...

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

The promotion of conservative candidates from some corners started almost immediately after Francis’s death was announced.

Becciu was sentenced to nearly five years in prison after a Vatican criminal court found him guilty of fraud and embezzlement ...

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 ...

President Alexander Stubb of Finland, who has become an interlocutor in peace talks, says in an interview he doesn’t want Ukraine to suffer the same fate his country once endured.

Whoever succeeds Pope Francis will inherit his momentous and controversial legacy of relations with Indigenous people ...

A cardinal convicted of financial crimes by the Vatican said he will not take part in the secret conclave to elect the new ...