Once-powerful Vatican official Cardinal Angelo Becciu has formally withdrawn from participating in the conclave to elect a ...

Two Catholic cardinals will miss the conclave next week to elect a successor to Pope Francis because of health issues, the ...

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu had been tipped to be the next Pope before his dramatic fall from grace in 2020 when ...

They may be looking at Francis as a model and choose another outsider. Or they may look at Francis' own predecessor, Pope ...

An Italian cardinal who was convicted of embezzlement and fraud said on Tuesday he will not take part in the secret conclave ...

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

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

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, the first cardinal ever convicted by a Vatican court, was sentenced to five and a half years ...

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