With the freezing of critical aid to African countries, the cardinal described Africa as 'a magnet for conflicts and fights over the natural resources so important to modern technology.' Cardinal ...

According to Cardijnal Ambongo, he worked with the head of the DDF, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, and with Pope Francis to produce a statement that the permission for same-sex blessings did not ...

Each day between now and the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis, on a date yet to be set, John Allen is offering a profile of a different papabile, the Italian term for a man who could be ...

The list of potential papal successors is long, though predictions rarely get it right. The Catholic Church doesn’t think in terms of seasons or election cycles—it thinks in centuries. Its mission is ...

Job description: Leading the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. Location: Vatican City. There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered "papabile," or possessing ...

ROME – Though it’s likely apocryphal, the story goes that during British rule of India, colonial officials became concerned about poisonous cobras in the city of Delhi and decided to offer a bounty ...

“I see many similarities between the problems of Amazonia and those of the Congo Basin,” Cardinal Friedolin Ambongo Besungu, O.F.M., told America, as the Synod of Bishops on the Pan-Amazonian region ...

Congolese Archbishop Fridolin Ambongo Besungu of Kinshasa is pictured in a 2016 photo. The newly installed head of one of Africa's largest archdioceses will vigorously defend democracy and human ...

The death of Pope Francis has reignited hopes for the first African leader to be installed at the helm of the Catholic Church in modern times. But there are reasons to believe that their time hasn't ...

At the conclusion of Pope Leo XIV’s Apostolic Visit to four African countries, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Archbishop of Kinshasa and President of SECAM, expressed pride, hope, and optimism ...