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

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

The church has never elected an African pope in its modern history. If it did, it would likely indicate a continuing trend of ...

Christianity is booming in Africa, leading analysts to tell Fox News Digital that it could be time for the next pope to come ...

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

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

Following the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88 on Monday, the selection process to elect the 267th pontiff will soon ...

As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Catholic Church leaders in Africa remember Francis as a pontiff who kept the continent close to his heart, advocating for its poor and the marginalized. NAIROBI, ...

As world leaders gather in Rome for Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday, many Catholics are wondering if the church could soon ...

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