With at least three African cardinals in the running to become the next Pope, African Catholics are excited, but remain ...

Catholic Church approaches pivotal conclave with 3 African cardinals among leading pope candidates, reflecting shifting ...

North Africa once produced Catholic popes who shaped Church traditions, including Easter Sunday and St Valentine’s Day. Will Africa see another pope after centuries?

“One thing Pope Francis did was to animate and empower young people in Africa, and today Catholicism there is driven by youth who saw in Pope Francis something you didn’t often see,” he said.

While the Church is losing influence in Europe and other parts of the world ... who emphasizes, however, how Catholicism in Africa has a traditionalist hue that may weigh against the election of a ...

Cardinal Philippe Ouédraogo of Burkina Faso was ruled out as an elector on Jan. 25 of this year, the day he turned 80, according to the yearbook. But that birthday was fake.