This paradigm shift reflects the profound transformation within the Catholic Church as it increasingly emphasizes broader representation from the global peripheries.

For Christians in the Middle East, this moment carries particular significance. These ancient communities, rooted in lands ...

Currently, five Middle Eastern cardinals will participate in the election and they hail from Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Morocco, ...

Cardinals hailing from 71 different countries ... so the actual number of Europeans is expected to be 52. Asia (including Middle East): 23 Africa: 18. One of the electors who says he's skipping ...

There has been relatively little speculation about papabile from the Middle East, where the Gospel was first proclaimed and the living stones still speak to us, and where many strong pastoral ...

Meanwhile, the voters, restricted to cardinals who are younger than 80 on the day the pope dies, are secluded in the 15th-century chapel, which hosted its first conclave in 1492. Beneath some of ...

VATICAN CITY — The Catholic cardinals gathered ahead of the conclave ... negotiations without preconditions in Ukraine and the Middle East. In a statement, they “noted with regret that there ...