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

If the sole predictor of who would become the next pope was where the Catholic Church is growing fastest, then it is almost ...

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

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

A conclave is a secret meeting where Catholic cardinals gather to elect a new pope. Out of a total of 252 cardinals, only 135 ...

Cardinals this week will start in-depth discussions on planning the conclave to choose Pope Francis’ successor ...

India has had a thriving community of Eastern Orthodox Christians, brought by Saint Thomas the Apostle to India.

When Bergoglio from Argentina broke the Third World barrier, some purists remained sceptical.” I cannot think of a function ...

The late pontiff was first Jesuit, the first Latin American, and first and last a priest, walking beside people on their journey of faith.

Waiting for an African Pope” by my brother, Azu Ishiekwene, made an interesting reading. Azu’s immense fecundity, as usual, his flawless prose, and free-flowing minting and weaving of words will ...

The late pontiff’s health concerns in recent years led to contenders to succeed him foreseeing a papabile ahead of his death ...