A May 27 audience with Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu points to a decision about a key structural reform that arguably ...

"It went well but I can't say anything." These are the only words from Cardinal Angelo Becciu after meeting Leo XIV. It was a ...

As with any new papacy, a quick look at their first appointments and audiences inside the system offers at least a small ...

Pope Leo XIV, right, stands in the Sistine Chapel among cardinals after being elected at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. He ...

Cardinal-electors take an oath to maintain “absolute and perpetual secrecy” concerning “all matters directly or indirectly ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

Odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stepped onto the balcony overlooking St.

Cardinal Stephen Chow, 65, the bishop of Hong Kong, was the only Chinese cardinal to vote in the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV. He spoke to America’s Vatican correspondent about his ...

WHEN POPE FRANCIS died, the Vatican faced the dilemma of what to do with the late pontiff’s social media accounts. Pope ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, 70, the Italian who ran the Vatican under Pope Francis, had entered the conclave as a front-runner but hadn’t received overwhelming support during the vote. The Italians ...

ROME: Along with the spiritual leadership of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, Pope Leo XIV now inherits oversight of the Vatican's shoddy finances -- and his predecessor's efforts to clean them up.

The newly anointed Pope Leo XIV came to the balcony clad in a white cassock topped by a red cape trimmed in ermine and draped ...