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

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 ...

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 ...

Humanity is at a crossroads, and facing the immense potential generated by the digital revolution driven by Artificial ...

The message was read aloud by Archbishop Ettore Balestrero, the Vatican representative to U.N. agencies in Geneva, at the AI ...

Pontiff urges international community at UN summit to create ethical frameworks ensuring AI serves humanity, not just ...