Unknown to most, but a leading figure in Vatican diplomacy, Dominique Mamberti is the Cardinal Protodeacon will soon have the task of shouting "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus Papam!" — I ...

THE WILKES-BARRE area has been my home for many years. A Midwesterner by birth, I also have lived in Europe and then northern Minnesota. My wife and I came here for a number of reasons, including the ...

Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, who served for 16 years as the top Vatican diplomat to the United Nations and headed up two key pontifical councils in Rome for several years, died on Monday at age ...