Cardinal Napier reflected on participating in protests years ago and being afraid that police might open fire on him and his ...

First, those who embrace Pope Francis’ wide-ranging, modernising changes in the Catholic church. The reform-minded pope made it possible to advance a new church culture that respected the voice and ...

“The future of the Catholic church passes through Africa,” Ilo said ... a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. “We have all this attention ...

Today violence is rising in South Sudan. Reflecting on this ... The election of an African Pope would show the Catholic Church’s faith not only in an African leader but in the Continent as ...

Nowhere in the world is the Roman Catholic Church growing faster ... When he visited African migrants in southern Italy and later kissed the feet of South Sudan’s two competing warlords, his ...

It is not a western prototype that has to be replicated in Africa and the rest of the global south without regard to the social, spiritual and cultural contexts of churches in these regions.