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

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

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

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 ...

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 conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis will begin on Wednesday, May 7, the Vatican announced Monday. The date 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 ...

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

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 smashed the stereotypical profile for a pontiff, becoming the Catholic Church's first leader from the Americas ...

Cardinals are expected to pick a date on Monday for the conclave to elect a new leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.

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