Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who was Pope Francis’s dutiful No. 2 at the Vatican, would be the obvious successor. But many cardinals are also doubtful that this rather low-key career ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin had served as Pope Francis ’ secretary of state—a.k.a. his second in command—since 2014.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT acknowledged that “there’s no clear consensus on who should be the next pope.” The bot then listed off some of the cardinals who have surfaced as frontrunners and their ...

On May 7, 2025, 133 Catholic cardinals will gather in the Sistine Chapel to choose the next pope. ... Cardinal Pietro Parolin, 70, is the Vatican’s Secretary of State and a frontrunner from Italy.

Francis met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Archbishop Edgar Pena Parra, two high-ranking Vatican officials, to approve decrees for two new saints and five people for beatification — the first ...

How Pope Leo XIV became the conclave’s stealth candidate. ... offered “good luck” — twice — to the man widely seen as the front-runner to be next pope: the Italian prelate Pietro Parolin.

He notes that the Cardinals Matteo Zuppi and Pietro Parolin are currently top picks among the game's 70,000+ users. Simone D'Alessio, an architect who lives just two kilometers from the Vatican ...

Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin holds the prestigious rank of the Vatican’s Secretary of State. He received more than 40 votes in the first round on Wednesday, the day voting started, as ...