Many Catholics in Africa are asking whether the next Pope will be from their continent. This, increasingly, seems likely.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Some 250,000 people paid their respects to Pope Francis during a three-day lying in state at St Peter's Basilica, the Vatican ...

After the funeral, Francis' coffin will be driven at a walking pace to be buried at his favourite church, Rome's papal basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. The pontiff was a champion of underdogs, and a ...

Polymarket gives the highest chance of becoming the next pope to one of the compromise candidates between progressives and ...

Shortly after Pope Francis died, speculation on who would succeed him became "one of the most popular betting markets in 2025," an analyst says.

The list of names ranges from the most high-profile — Pope Francis and Vladimir Putin —to the more obscure such as Festus ...