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

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

As cardinals meet to elect a new pontiff, Euronews spoke to senior Catholic figures from the region as they reflected on the ...

As of today, all telephone communications within the Vatican will be cut off and will only be restored after the announcement ...

The Catholic cardinals gathered ahead of the conclave to elect a new pope called on Tuesday for ceasefires and peace ...

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 ...

In the spring of 2023, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem addressed a conference about a dizzyingly complex subject – ...

There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile,” or possessing the characteristics necessary to become pope. After St. John Paul II broke the ...

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 ...