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

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

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

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

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

People lined up from the early hours of Sunday for a farewell to Pope Francis at his simple tomb in the Papal Basilica of ...

What happens after Pope Francis funeral – how the Conclave to select his successor will work - The late pope broke from ...

About 250,000 mourners in Vatican City fell into hushed silence on Saturday morning as the funeral for Pope Francis began.

Images of Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky , hunched forward on simple chairs in the middle of St Peter's Basilica on ...

The process of selecting the next Holy Father after Pope Francis’ death is set to begin any day now. The College of Cardinals ...

Tens of thousands of mourners from across the world queued throughout the week to pay final respects to Pope Francis at St Peter’s Basilica. World leaders descended on the Vatican on Saturday for Pope ...