Cardinal Parolin recalled the 2003 Iraq war, when St. John Paul II pleaded for the conflict to be avoided but “was left alone ...

CatholicPhilly presents a weekly roundup of international news from Vatican News, the official news portal of the Holy See. The following report on the week of April 5, 2026 links to stories on ...

In a recent interview with the Italian quarterly 'Dialoghi,' Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, discusses ...

The Vatican's top diplomat on Wednesday called on U. President ‌Donald Trump to end the expanding Iran ‌war as soon as ...

(ANSA) - VATICAN CITY, APR 10 - French President Emmanuel Macron was in the Vatican on Friday for a private audience with ...

Cardinal Parolin was considered “the main candidate”, a strong favourite to be the next Pope but “not a certainty”. As the Vatican’s secretary of state since 2013, 70-year-old Cardinal Parolin, from ...

VATICAN: “Put an end to this foolishness that is war.” This was the appeal Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin voiced to a group of journalists, on the sidelines of a study day ...

The government allegedly demanded earlier in the year that the Vatican throw support behind U.S. military actions.

Pope Leo XIV greets visitors as he rides in the popemobile around St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican May 28, 2025, ahead of his weekly general audience. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope ...

Father Maurice El Khoury, left, leads Sunday Mass inside a room usually used as a residence for visiting bishops next to St. George Melkite Catholic Church, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's Secretary of State for the last 12 years and its top diplomat, has emerged on nearly every shortlist as an obvious papal contender. White smoke has billowed from ...