One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...

If the sole predictor of who would become the next pope was where the Catholic Church is growing fastest, then it is almost ...

Some hope his successor, to be chosen in the coming days or weeks, could come from Africa or Asia. Read more at ...

A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.”It implies the<a ...

Pope Francis' successor will face a litany of challenges, from the place of women and the LGBTQ community in the Catholic ...

After Francis’ funeral Saturday, the cardinals who have flocked to Rome will meet regularly this week, sizing one another up ...

VICE President Dr. Philip Mpango has emphasized that the best way to honour the late Pope Francis, the former Head of the ...

The church is divided. The problem is to find the one who unites, not pretend that it isn’t divided,” one church historian ...

One of Pope Francis’ enduring legacies was that he greatly expanded the diversity of cardinals who will elect his successor, ...

For years, traditionalists raged at Pope Francis's liberal approach. The question now is whether his successor will walk the ...

India has had a thriving community of Eastern Orthodox Christians, brought by Saint Thomas the Apostle to India.