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

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

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

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

Pope Francis’ emphasis on reaching out to the “peripheries" of the church and world will result in the most diverse ...

If conservatives have their way, Roman Catholic cardinals would make history by naming the first Black pope in history. The ...

Pope Francis—the head of the Catholic Church, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio—will be laid to rest in Rome in a simple yet rare ...

A Black pope would make a profound statement — not just in the United States, where President Donald Trump has demonized ...

With approximately 30 million adherents in Nigeria, the Roman Catholic Church is the largest Christian denomination in ...

The church is divided. The problem is to find the one who unites, not pretend that it isn’t divided,” one church historian ...

Most popes have come from Europe, even though there are countries in South and Central America, Asia, and Africa with ...