Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu has officially withdrawn from participating in the conclave to elect a new pope. The ...

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

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

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

The Italian cardinal at the heart of the Vatican's "trial of the century" announced Tuesday he was withdrawing from ...

In preparation for the upcoming conclave on May 7, Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle has been named among the cardinals ...

The cardinal, who was convicted of embezzlement in 2023 by a Vatican court of first instance, decided not to attend the ...

Speaking at St. Peter’s Basilica on Monday, the 54-year-old vicar general for the Diocese of Rome described how the faithful ...

The over-80 cardinals can be part of the preconclave meetings called general congregations. Those are daily meetings in which ...

When the cardinals meet for the conclave, they gather in the Sistine Chapel. All cardinal electors must swear an oath of ...

The date was chief on the agenda of cardinals holding informal meetings Monday to work out church business following the ...