Many Catholics in Africa are asking whether the next Pope will be from their continent. This, increasingly, seems likely.

The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel to begin preparations for the conclave, during which Catholic cardinals from around ...

Heavy is the white mitre worn by the pope. Whoever emerges from the coming conclave as the new leader of the ...

Cardinals arriving for the first day of meetings after Pope Francis’ funeral were swarmed at the city-state’s gates by journalists eager for hints of whether any consensus is building around the elect ...

FrontPageAfrica has reliably gathered that Liberia’s religious community, acting on the request of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, is attempting to persuade Speaker Jonathan Fonati Koffa to resign amid ...

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

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

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

As a result of Francis’ expansion of the diversity of cardinals who will elect his successor, all that is certain about the ...

Hundreds of thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, a day after Pope Francis' funeral, for another ceremony to ...

Thus, Karuri and the community he led found themselves in a colonial world teeming with opportunists, where the boundaries ...