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 ...

Callista and I attended the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception three times this Holy Week. The ...

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

Cardinals this week will start in-depth discussions on planning the conclave to choose Pope Francis’ successor ...

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

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.” ...

Once the conclave begins, cardinals will vote twice in the morning and twice in the evening until they make a selection.

When Bergoglio from Argentina broke the Third World barrier, some purists remained sceptical.” I cannot think of a function ...

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo found a way for the Africans to have their cassava and eat it too – opposing the pope, at least ...

The late pontiff’s health concerns in recent years led to contenders to succeed him foreseeing a papabile ahead of his death ...