The promotion of conservative candidates from some corners started almost immediately after Francis’s death was announced.

Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson is considered as the potential first black Pope in the history of the Catholic Church.

Columnist Will Sutton says MAGA might like to see an African pope and considers whether Black Catholics might agree.

The Conclave which opens next Wednesday, 7 May, will be less Euro-centric than it has ever been before. The 135 Cardinals Electors of the College of Cardinals hail from 71 different countries across ...

I was out drinking with friends when one of us yelled on top of his voice that the next pope would come from Africa.

On May 7, with the solemn pronouncement of extra omnes — "everyone else out" — the doors of the Sistine Chapel will close as ...

Red-hatted cardinals were expected to pick a date Monday for the conclave to elect a new leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, following the death of Pope Francis.

Catholic cardinals agreed yesterday to begin a conclave on May 7 to elect a new pope, highlighting clerical sexual abuse as ...

New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan is among 10 Americans eligible to vote in next week’s Vatican conclave to elect the next pope — but don’t expect white smoke for the red, white, and blue contingent.

Red-robed cardinals convened at the Vatican on Monday morning to set a date for the conclave that will elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on 21 April. The cardinals, referred to ...

None of of the 217 popes since Gelasius I are believed to have come from Africa.“The church in North Africa was weakened by very many forces, including the fall of the Roman Empire and also the ...