Francis-era reforms that saw a diverse group of cardinals join the mix make his successor nearly impossible to call.

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The Military Secondary School celebrated the graduation of its fifth cohort at Muqdam Camp on Tuesday. During their studies, the graduates received training, military skills, and academic ...

Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana, 76, who Pope Francis named chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences, is third at 5-1. He’d be the first African pope. If you are betting on nationality ...

The performers join the station’s prestigious talent development scheme from September L-R: Oleg Shebeta-Dragan (Image: Bartek Barczyk), Erika Baikoff, Astatine Trio, the NOVO Quartet, Lukas ...

Ordained in 1982 at age 27, he received a doctorate in canon law at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. In Peru, he was a missionary, parish priest, teacher and bishop.

He entered the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome, which trains priests to serve in the diplomatic corps. In the 1980s, he was stationed in Nigeria during military coups and a civil war.

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“Congo is the plate from which everyone eats, except for our people,” he said last year during a speech at the Pontifical Antonianum University. Ambongo’s criticism of authorities has drawn ...

Zollner, director of the Institute of Anthropology: Interdisciplinary Studies on Human Dignity and Care at the Pontifical Gregorian University, was one of the founding members of Pope Francis ...

A prominent canonist and former rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University, Jesuit priest Gianfranco Ghirlanda was elevated to cardinal in 2022 at the age of 80. The following year, Pope ...

He is also a Franciscan who undertook biblical studies in the Holy Land and earned a doctorate in philosophy from the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome. Pope Francis elevated him to the ...