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Once-powerful Vatican official Cardinal Angelo Becciu has formally withdrawn from participating in the conclave to elect a new pope

The cardinal, who was convicted of embezzlement in 2023 by a Vatican court of first instance, decided not to attend the proceedings after days of controversy.

Upon returning to the US after his symbolically powerful meeting with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, at St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, President Donald Trump told reporters: “I think [Zelensky] wants to make a deal.” He also called for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to “sit down and sign the…

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The decision came as preparations get underway for the May 7 conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis

Trump arrived at Pope Francis' funeral wearing a blue suit and a light blue tie, standing out in a sea of black. Did he break Vatican protocol?

A total of 135 cardinals from across the world, all below the age of 80, are eligible to take part in the secret vote.

More than a hundred Roman Catholic cardinals will meet at Sistine Chapel to decide church’s next leader

Zelenskyy, Starmer, Macron … they all had his ear at Pope Francis’s funeral. But he is just as easily swayed by the elevator doorman, says Orysia Lutsevych, head of the Ukraine forum at Chatham House