The Vatican specialist Richard Raho suggests that the new pope might be a cardinal from Africa. Among the potential ...

After attending Pope Francis’s funeral Saturday and as they begin pre-conclave meetings to discuss the state of the world and ...

As world leaders gather in Rome for Pope Francis's funeral on Saturday, many Catholics are wondering if the church could soon elect its first black pope. With Africa home to one in five Catholics, the ...

With the world mourning the loss of Pope Francis, cardinals gather at the Vatican to choose a date for the conclave that will ...

Donald Trump and his wife, first lady Melania, have attended the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square. Trump drew ...

A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.”It implies the<a ...

People lined up from the early hours of Sunday to bid farewell to Pope Francis in front of his tomb in the Papal Basilica of ...

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

The cardinals were invited to visit the pope's tomb and pray vespers, which was presided over by Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, coadjutor archpriest of the basilica.

About 250,000 mourners in Vatican City fell into hushed silence on Saturday morning as the funeral for Pope Francis began.

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

As a result of Francis’ expansion of the diversity of cardinals who will elect his successor, all that is certain about the ...