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 ...

Could the Vatican Crown World’s First African Pope in Modern History | Firstpost Africa | N18G As tributes pour in for Pope ...

As world leaders gather in Rome for Pope Francis's funeral on Saturday, many Catholics are wondering if the church could soon elect its first black pope. With Africa home to one in five Catholics, the ...

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

The cardinals agreed to delay the start of the voting procedure, or conclave, to give themselves time to get to know one ...

There were 135 cardinals aged under 80 when Francis died and are thereby eligible to take part in the conclave, but it is not ...