According to Cardijnal Ambongo, he worked with the head of the DDF, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, and with Pope Francis to produce a statement that the permission for same-sex blessings did not ...

If Catholicism's future is in Africa, as is so often touted, then when, not if, will there be an African pope in the modern era? There have been three popes who have hailed from North Africa, the last ...

With the freezing of critical aid to African countries, the cardinal described Africa as 'a magnet for conflicts and fights over the natural resources so important to modern technology.' Cardinal ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — At a church in a Roman suburb on Sunday (May 4), Congolese Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu of Kinshasa preached on a story from the Gospel of John in which Jesus’ followers in ...

As the cardinals of the Catholic Church prepare to enter the Sistine Chapel Wednesday to choose the next pope, a surprising dynamic has emerged. One cardinal has made comments about his African ...

On 7 May, 133 Cardinal electors will lock themselves in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican and begin the secret process of electing the next pope. While much of the process is shrouded in mystery, what ...

Job description: Leading the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. Location: Vatican City. There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile,” or possessing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Every papal conclave comes down, in some sense, to a referendum on the papacy that has just ended," John Allen, a longtime ...

Job description: Leading the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. Location: Vatican City. There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile,” or possessing ...

Some papal contenders offered hints in Sunday Masses at what kind of pope they might want, or want to be. By Patricia Mazzei Jason Horowitz and Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Sunday Mass at ...

The leader of Africa’s Catholic bishops pushed back Tuesday on the narrative that it was only Africans who objected to a 2023 Vatican declaration permitting blessings for same-sex couples. “The ...