Parolin - a 70-year-old from a small town in Italy's deeply Catholic northern Veneto region - is said to be a steady administrator who could bring some calm after three consecutive papacies that ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's Secretary of State for the last 12 years and its top diplomat, has emerged on nearly every shortlist as an obvious papal contender. White smoke has billowed ...

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 ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin attends the 150th anniversary of the arrival of Catholic missionaries in China from an Italian religious order meeting, in Milan, Italy, on Oct. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Antonio ...

Who is Pietro Parolin. Born in 1955 in Schiavon, a small town in Italy’s Vicenza province, Parolin has become a central figure in the conclave and is widely seen as a top contender. He has a ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, born in Schiavon, Italy, in 1955, served as Vatican Secretary of State from 2013 until Pope Francis' death in 2025. An experienced diplomat, he was made a cardinal by Pope ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, 70, has been a consistent favorite to succeed Pope Francis and has long been regarded as a possible papabile (pope contender).. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who is from Italy ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's Secretary of State for the last 12 years and its top diplomat, has emerged on nearly every shortlist as an obvious papal contender.. White smoke has billowed ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's Secretary of State for the last 12 years and its top diplomat, has emerged on nearly every shortlist as an obvious papal contender. White smoke has billowed ...

Parolin - a 70-year-old from a small town in Italy's deeply Catholic northern Veneto region - is said to be a steady administrator who could bring some calm after three consecutive papacies that were ...