Catholic leaders across Africa are expressing excitement at the election of the first American as Pope Leo XIV.

Seventy-five years ago, the Diocese of Buea was established in Cameroon’s South West region, marking a historic milestone as ...

“In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury ... the missionary conversion of the entire Christian community; growth in collegiality and synodality; attention to the sensus ...

The Catholic Church insists that its popes are chosen not by political ... In their history, no Black African has ever been appointed to that body despite massive African growth in membership. This ...

Rome Newsroom, 10 May, 2025 / 5:15 pm (ACI Africa). Pope Leo XIV met with the College of Cardinals ... while emphasizing continuity with his predecessors and commitment to the Church’s social teaching ...

His election reflects a Church that is not shrinking but expanding — a Church alive in every corner of the world, including ...

As cardinals meet to elect a new pontiff, Euronews spoke to senior Catholic figures ... Middle East and North Africa tend to be more conservative compared to what the Church now extols as its ...

(AP) The papal conclave is the secretive, centuries-old process by which the Roman Catholic Church elects a new pope. This week, 133 cardinal electors, among the Church’s most senior officials ...

While an African pope would be a historically stunning development, just one of the drawbacks is that no African cardinal holds a major office in the Vatican.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was chosen on May 8 by cardinals in a conclave at the Vatican, which wrapped up in less than ...