Pietro Parolin is the Secretary of State of the Holy See, chosen by Jorge Mario Bergoglio immediately after his inauguration and appointed cardinal the following year. He was the key figure in the ...

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin reportedly suffered a small health scare this week during a general congregation meeting with his fellow papal electors. Outlets in Italy and ...

Cardinals have talked about Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, as someone who could have a steady, bureaucratic hand on the church’s wheel. By Jason Horowitz and Patricia ...

“Brothers and sisters, precisely on Divine Mercy Sunday we remember our beloved Pope Francis with affection,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin said Sunday.

70-year-old Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who, like Pacelli in his time, is currently the Vatican’s Secretary of State. Born in 1955 in Schiavon, a small town of 2,500 souls in northern Italy ...

Pietro Parolin ... Francis' predecessor. Parolin most recently served as Francis' secretary of state, akin to a deputy pope, since 2013. Tribute book: Honor Pope Francis' legacy, papal history ...

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Long considered a potential papabile (papal candidate), Cardinal Pietro Parolin ... Pope Francis made then-Bishop Parolin the youngest Vatican Secretary of State in 84 years in 2013.

ROME – In the days surrounding Pope Francis’ death, Cardinal Pietro Parolin ... It seems that everyone knows Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, who will preside over the papal election ...

The Vatican’s secretary of state cautioned that there ... options as wars escalate in Europe and beyond. Cardinal Pietro Parolin’s comments were made on Friday (Nov. 15) at a conference ...

Don Pietro, but only for friends ... When Bergoglio announced that Parolin would soon return to Rome as Secretary of State and replace Cardinal Bertone (who had meanwhile fallen into disgrace ...