Meet the conclave: Cardinal Pietro Parolin
His path from smalltown Italy to the heights of Vatican power.
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When Pietro Parolin was nine years old, his father died in a car accident. His sister Maria Rosa Parolin later described the event as “very destabilizing” for her brother. Their father had been a very religious man, whose devotion served as an inspiration for his oldest son.
