*Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, a 76-year-old Ghanaian prelate, is widely regarded as a leading candidate to succeed Pope Francis, who passed away on April 21, 2025. If elected, Turkson would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Any baptized man can become pope, but traditionally he (and it is always a ‘he’) is elected from the college of Cardinals. This ...

As cardinals deliberate behind closed doors in the Sistine Chapel to select a successor to Pope Francis, even artificial intelligence systems refused to predict who will wear the papal crown when the ...

20% of the 1.4 billion Catholics are African, increasing the chances of a Pope from that continent. While the Church is losing influence in Europe and other parts of the world, there is a whole ...

CEOs as “partners with God”? That’s how the Vatican, for all of its criticism of free markets, views corporate leaders. But it’s a lofty description that comes with a high bar. Cardinal Peter Turkson, ...