Cardinal Angelo Sodano has resigned, at 92, as Dean of the College of Cardinals. Excerpt: Pope Francis used the occasion to express “my gratitude, including in the name of the members of the College ...

ROME (AP) — Cardinal Angelo Sodano, a once-powerful Italian prelate who long served as the Vatican’s No. 2 official but whose legacy was tarnished by his support for the pedophile founder of an ...

There is one image of the late Cardinal Angelo Sodano that remains etched in Vatican-watchers’ memories. On Feb. 11, 2013, Benedict XVI had just delivered a speech announcing his resignation and left ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Cardinal Angelo Sodano, a controversial Vatican power broker for more than a quarter of a century who was accused of covering up one of the Catholic Church's most notorious sex ...

Pope Francis on Tuesday attended the funeral Mass of the former Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the College of Cardinals, presided at the ...

A scene in "The Two Popes," the charming new Netflix movie, has Anthony Hopkins as a brooding, gentle Benedict XVI hearing the unprompted confession of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, played by Jonathan ...

Cardinal Angelo Sodano, a once-powerful Italian prelate who long served as the Vatican's No. 2 official but whose legacy was tarnished by his support for Fr. Marcial Maciel, the serial sexual abuser ...

Cardinal Angelo Sodano, former Vatican diplomat and retired secretary of state, died on Friday at the age of 94. The ex-dean of the College of Cardinals had contracted pneumonia after becoming ill ...

Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, makes the sign of the cross during a Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this Nov. 21, 2010, file ...

He rose to the second-highest-ranking position in the Roman Catholic Church, but his reputation was stained by his handling of sex-abuse cases. By Jason Horowitz ROME — Cardinal Angelo Sodano, who ...

His funeral will be held in St. Peter’s Basilica on May 31. Cardinal Angelo Sodano distributes Communion during the Mass for the election of a new pope, in St. Peter's Basilica on March 12, 2013, ...