Over 130 voting cardinals must decide whether to continue in the direction of Francis or elect a pope likely to choose a more traditional path.

There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.

Scholars say the next pope will contend with climate change and rising authoritarianism as well as shifting demographics and ...

Rwanda's deal with Britain to take in rejected asylum-seekers collapsed last year after much criticism by human rights groups ...

The voting process to elect a new Pope gets under way in Rome later and for the second conclave in a row there will be no ...

A cooking competition pitting foreign diplomats against each other in Zimbabwe has provided a light-hearted break from ...

Law which stripped citizenship from South Africans who took another country’s citizenship is unconstitutional, ConCourt rules ...