The Catholic church faces a fundamental question as it prepares to elect a new pope. That is, whether to go back to a monarchical papacy with its pomp and pageantry, or to build on the momentum begun ...

The Catholic Church's conclave to select the next pope will begin May 7, with some wondering if the church will continue down the path of non-European pontiffs by electing an African pope. This ...

As the Catholic Church prepares for its May 14 conclave, anticipation surges throughout Africa where many faithful harbor hopes for the first African pope in more than 1,500 years. The possibility ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO – On a sunny morning at St. Benedict the African Catholic Church on Chicago’s South Side, the Rev. Rukulatwa Kiiguta ...

It is the first Sunday of the Advent season, and inside St. Norbert Catholic Church in Florissant are about 50 African families spaced out across the church pews tapping their feet to the African drum ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Catholic Church leaders in Africa remember Pope Francis as a pontiff who kept the continent close to his heart, advocating for its poor and the marginalized. As Catholics’ ...

African bishops highlighted the Pope's trip to Africa as a defining moment of his ministry as well as the pontiff's emphasis ...

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A leading Catholic nun in Africa has made the case for economic justice, urging the Catholic Church in Africa to use the Lenten period to “engage in economic decolonization, ...

DURING a meeting at the Vatican in 2019 with South Sudanese leaders, a desperately frail Pope Francis dropped to his knees before the President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, and other senior leaders. In ...

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – The third Pan-African Catholic Jubilee on Theology, Society, and Pastoral Life opens August 5 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, under the theme “Journeying Together in Hope as a Church ...

“Resurrection,” by Engelbert Mveng, S.J., in the Jesuit chapel at Hekima College in Nairobi, Kenya. (Courtesy of author) Upon the death of the Rev. Bénézet Bujo last week in Switzerland, the ...

African Catholic priests, and those from Madagascar, rebuked Pope Francis’ approval of same-sex couples being blessed by the Catholic Church on Thursday, saying they refuse to follow the pontiff’s ...