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

Following Pope Francis’s death, conservative Catholics are hoping for a traditionalist successor. However, Vatican insiders ...

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 ...

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.

Catholics and cinephiles find themselves converging on a single space as many find similarities between the upcoming papal ...

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.

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who is aged 60 and the current Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, is another one to watch, as is ...

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.