Could the Vatican Crown World’s First African Pope in Modern History | Firstpost Africa | N18G As tributes pour in for Pope ...

Catholic cardinals will meet on 7 May to start voting for a new pope, the Vatican announced on Monday, a week after the death ...

The Church's 252 cardinals were called back to Rome after the Argentine's death, although only 135 are eligible to vote in the conclave.

Francis was laid to rest on Saturday with a funeral and burial ceremony that drew 400,000 people to St Peter's Square and ...

VATICAN - 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.Dozens of so-called ...

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 ...

Here's a closer look at the names generating the most buzz..Next pope, possible candidates, papal conclave, papabili ...

The Catholic Church has historically opposed betting on papal elections, even declaring it an excommunicable offense in 1591. This law was later repealed in 1918. In 2005, David Power, a leading ...

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.