The Italian cardinal at the heart of the Vatican’s “trial of the century” is withdrawing from participating in the upcoming ...

Angelo Becciu was forced to resign as head of the Vatican’s saint-making office and his rights as a cardinal because of ...

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

Cardinals have no contact with the outside world after the master of liturgical ceremonies utters the words “Extra Omnes” the ...

Francis forged a legacy grounded in the true spirit of the Gospels, defending justice and human dignity against systems that ...

ANALYSIS: While the de-Christianized Old Continent seems to be becoming irrelevant in view of the ongoing shift of Church leadership to the Southern Hemisphere, its cardinals will nonetheless maintain ...

Canon law does not give much specific direction about who can make decisions for the church during the interregnum.