And in a Church that boasts over 1.3 billion followers—many of them African—is it time for a Black Catholic Pope ... of Christian Origins at King’s College London. “He was a Jew from ...

This process is called a conclave, and it is how the Roman Catholic Church chooses its next ... A conclave is a secret meeting of the College of Cardinals who vote to elect a new pope.

It’s long been said that to sing is to pray twice. And a group of Catholic clergymen in western Massachusetts that truly ...

are part of the most diverse College of Cardinals in the Catholic Church's centuries-long history. As geographic and ideological factions take shape around the vision for the Church's future ...

With a conclave to select a new pope typically not taking place for two to three weeks after a pontiff's passing, several weeks can go by without a pope leading the Roman Catholic Church.

According to the United States Council of Catholic Bishops, before the conclave, the College of Cardinals, which includes 252 cardinals, holds a series of meetings at the Vatican called general ...

By Stephanie Saul One of the nation’s most elite liberal arts schools, Amherst College has historically also been one of its most diverse. In 2023, federal data revealed that its overall Black ...

This conclave will also be the most diverse in the history of the Catholic Church, said Mathew Schmalz, a professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross, a liberal arts college in ...