The African continent is home to one-fifth of the world's Catholics. Many are hoping the next pope will come from their ...

Hollywood and the media love intrigue. And the interregnum in the Catholic Church provides much fodder for an institution ...

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

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history.

Nowhere in the world is the Roman Catholic Church growing faster than in Africa, a continent Francis showered with attention.

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North Africa once produced Catholic popes who shaped Church traditions, including Easter Sunday and St Valentine’s Day. Will ...

Catholic Church leaders in Africa remember Francis as a pontiff who kept the continent close to his heart, advocating for its ...

There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile,” or possessing the ...

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