The chancellor of the Roman Curia, Ghanaian-born Cardinal Peter Turkson, addressed the evolving nature of power in ecclesial and societal contexts in his Aug. 17 inaugural lecture for the opening of ...

*Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, a 76-year-old Ghanaian prelate, is widely regarded as a leading candidate to succeed Pope Francis, who passed away on April 21, 2025. If elected, Turkson would ...

ROME — Pope Francis has named Cardinal Peter Turkson as the new chancellor of both the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. The announcement was ...

Pope Francis on Monday appointed Cardinal Peter Turkson as the new chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. The Ghanaian cardinal succeeds the 79 ...

With the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88, the world’s attention now turns to who will replace him. Predicting who will be chosen as the next leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics is ...

Any baptized man can become pope, but traditionally he (and it is always a ‘he’) is elected from the college of Cardinals. This year, possible contenders range from Francis’ liberal-leaning secretary ...

Baker was the senior international climate and environment correspondent at TIME. Baker was the senior international climate and environment correspondent at TIME. Any baptized man can become pope, ...

Cardinal Peter Turkson, former prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, walks in procession after celebrating Mass marking World Day of the Sick, in St. Peter's Basilica at ...

As cardinals deliberate behind closed doors in the Sistine Chapel to select a successor to Pope Francis, even artificial intelligence systems refused to predict who will wear the papal crown when the ...

Young people's intensified demand for climate action is a sign of hope during the planet's ecological crisis, said Cardinal Peter Turkson, head of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human ...