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

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

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

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 ...

Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has defended the government's partnership with churches, dismissing claims of division between church and state.Speaking during a fundraiser at Marani Catholic Church ...

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

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