When a pope dies or resigns, the Catholic Church follows an ancient, secretive process called the conclave to elect his ...

Asia’s front-runner for the papacy, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines is a charismatic moderate often dubbed the ...

Songwe and her co-authors suggest that conditional debt relief could be a powerful way of providing this support. They make the case for “greening debt restructuring”, with creditors taking haircuts ...

Millions around the world tuned in to watch as Pope Francis was laid to rest on 26 April, with 400,000 mourners alone paying ...

A Nigerian priest who attended the funeral of Pope Francis was happy to have met Cardinal John Onaiyekan at the Vatican. He ...

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

When Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was elected in 2013 as Pope Francis, he was a near total Vatican outsider. He had never been a Vatican official, instead spending decades in local ministry. And he came ...

Catholic cardinals set May 7 as the date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis' successor, following informal meetings where ...

There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile.” That means they possess the ...

President John Dramani Mahama has made a case for Ghana's Cardinal Peter Appiah Turkson as the next Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.According to President Mahama, the 76-year old Cardinal Turkson ...

Pope Francis, who left an enduring global legacy, was not only a spiritual leader but also a bold moral economist. His vision—rooted in human dignity, solidarity, and care for the vulnerable—offers ...

Those gathering to elect a successor to Pope Francis say the first step to reaching a two-thirds majority is to get to know ...