The Vatican houses the central government of the Catholic Church and is also an independent city-state. The pope is both the head of the Catholic Church and head of state. In order to govern both, he has the Roman Curia, meaning “court.” In modern terms, the Curia is the papal bureaucracy. It is an extension of the pope’s authority.
The Vatican houses the central government of the Catholic Church and is also an independent city-state ... headed by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, oversees relations with other countries and ...
Vatican City — Pope Francis remained in critical but stable condition ... most importantly that Francis had met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, the Vatican "substitute" or chief of staff. It was the first known time the ...
When Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, welcomed Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda to the Vatican March 3, Russia's war on Ukraine was a key topic on the age