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

A Black pope would make a profound statement — not just in the United States, where President Donald Trump has demonized ...

Francis fashioned a profoundly reformist papacy, deeply divisive within the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis, who died at ...

Pope Francis’ death fires the gun on what many see as a battle for the soul of the church – pitting those who want to ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and ...

A longtime Vatican correspondent shares his insights on the legacy of Pope Francis, a populist leader who sought to bring the ...

Turner said he got the idea from the Rev. Otis Moss III of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, whose church also ...

As world leaders gather in Rome for Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday, many Catholics are wondering if the church could soon ...

With approximately 30 million adherents in Nigeria, the Roman Catholic Church is the largest Christian denomination in ...

Pope Francis’ emphasis on reaching out to the "peripheries" of the Catholic Church and world will result in the most diverse ...

But Africa’s share of the Catholic population is growing. The continent is now home to 20 percent of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, as the church struggles to hold on to followers in ...

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