(RNS) — The popular website, where people are randomly assigned a cardinal to pray for, has been revived for the 2025 conclave. (RNS) — Before the last conclave, Ulrike Heckl found herself ...

When I visited a Catholic church in Israel, the priest was wearing a robe I had seen someplace before — on Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley, the recently retired archbishop of Boston.

Over dinner, as one gluten-free cardinal picked over vegetables and others shrugged at the simple fare, they weighed their choices. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, 70, the Italian who ran the Vatican ...