Cardinal Angelo Becciu, 76, announced Tuesday, "Having at heart the good of the church, which I have served and will continue to serve with fidelity and love, as well as to contribute to the ...

Cardinal Angelo Becciu, 76, once a leading papal contender and a longtime Vatican diplomat, is not participating in the conclave to elect a new pope to succeed Francis, who died on April 21 at the ...

Cardinal Angelo Becciu’ s status has dominated discussions in the days after Pope Francis’ death amid questions about whether he would participate in the conclave to elect Francis’ successor ...

Becciu, 76, is the once-powerful Italian cardinal who formally withdrew his participation in the conclave on Tuesday, after days of uncertainty about his status.

After his 2020 downfall, Becciu had said he would not participate in any future conclave. But in recent days he had asserted he had a right to enter the Sistine Chapel with other cardinals on May ...

Italian cardinal Angelo Becciu's decision to withdraw from the upcoming conclave to elect a successor to the late Pope Francis could spare the Catholic Church from embarrassment and scandal that ...

Becciu was once an influential Vatican chief of staff who was a leading papal contender himself. But he fell from grace in 2020 when Francis forced him to resign his job as head of the Vatican’s ...