He who enters the conclave as pope, leaves it as a cardinal.” In other words, any candidate seen as the frontrunner before ...

The conclave to select the new pontiff will contain an unusually large number of British cardinals, three of whom are outside ...

would automatically be made cardinals and instead gave red hats to bishops in parts of the world that had never had them before, such as Tonga, Haiti and Papua New Guinea. Several of them are ...

Specifically, he threw out the old, unwritten rulebook that bishops of certain dioceses (several of them in Italy) would ...

Several Black cardinals have emerged as frontrunners to become the next pope. Due to reforms by Pope Francis, the field of ...