As accolades poured in from around the world on the death of Pope Francis, prominent Black Americans pointed to the pontiff’s legacy of advocating for the marginalized, including Black people. Others, ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

The cardinals eligible to vote for the new pope will gather in the coming weeks and enter seclusion to secretly vote for the new bishop of Rome.

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

Some 250,000 people paid their respects to Pope Francis during a three-day lying in state at St Peter's Basilica, the Vatican ...

Pietro Parolin is early favorite on canadian betting sites to become the next pope following the passing of Pope Francis.

The Vatican was making final preparations Friday for Pope Francis's funeral as the last of the huge crowds of mourners filed ...

Polymarket gives the highest chance of becoming the next pope to one of the compromise candidates between progressives and ...

The date when Catholic cardinals will gather to select Pope Francis's successor is not yet known. But bookmakers and crypto ...