
Pietro Parolin, Career Diplomat Leading Race to be Pope
This is Beirut, 30/04 10:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A seasoned diplomat who worked with Pope Francis for 12 years, Cardinal Pietro Parolin is well-known in Rome and abroad, and a serious contender to be the next pontiff. The 70-year-old Italian was Secretary of State -- the Vatican's effective number two -- for almost the entire Francis pontificate, and its most visible exponent on the world ...