KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history.

The project will highlight scripted short films from international communities along with snippets of a conversation between ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago, has spent the bulk of his career outside the United States. Supporters ...

Tuesday, April 21, 2025, a day after celebrating Christ’s Resurrection with scores of the faithful at St Peter’s Square, Pope ...

Cardinal electors will begin their deliberations on who will succeed the late pope Francis on Wednesday, May 7.

Known by his peers as a serious theologian, scholar and educator, Erdő, 72, is a leading contender among conservatives. He ...

Perceived as the pontiff of the “peripheries,” Pope Francis had a profound impact on Africans. A visit with people in Gabon ...

The death of Pope Francis and global aid cuts led by the United States could complicate the work of a group of experts ...

Faithful attend a National Memorial Service for the late Pope Francis, at the Roman Catholic church, in Soweto, South Africa, ...

The video allegedly showing a man being escorted away from the late pontiff's body appeared online before the lying in state ...