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

The project will highlight scripted short films from international communities along with snippets of a conversation between ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago, has spent the bulk of his career outside the United States. Supporters ...

Tuesday, April 21, 2025, a day after celebrating Christ’s Resurrection with scores of the faithful at St Peter’s Square, Pope ...

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

Cardinal electors will begin their deliberations on who will succeed the late pope Francis on Wednesday, May 7.

Catholic church members gathered at the Regina Mundi Catholic Church in Johannesburg South Africa on Wednesday for a mass to ...

Will the adage 'fat pope, thin pope' bear out as cardinals pick a successor to Pope Francis in the May 7 conclave?

Perceived as the pontiff of the “peripheries,” Pope Francis had a profound impact on Africans. A visit with people in Gabon ...

The death of Pope Francis and global aid cuts led by the United States could complicate the work of a group of experts ...