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

Some say having a pope from Africa or Asia would signal a powerful message of inclusion. If the next pope is from sub-Saharan ...

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

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

Rappler breaks down the demographics of the cardinal electors, including where they’re from and which pope appointed them ...

A possible contender for the papacy, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi has worked with the needy and the disenfranchised, even as he ...

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

Sri Lankan Cardinal Albert Malcolm Ranjith, the 77-year-old archbishop of Colombo, represents a more traditional doctrinal ...

After every two rounds of voting in the Sistine Chapel, the ballots of the cardinals are burned in a special furnace to ...

Days before the late Pope Francis was buried, social media users circulated a video of people in hooded cloaks at a religious ...