Three Popes, Paul VI, John Paul II, and Francis, have visited Uganda, making it the only country in sub-Saharan Africa to ...

Among the many Black men and women who have been declared saints in the Catholic Church ... 1989 and spoke about her identity as an African American Catholic as a “gift to the Church." ...

One of the first saints I studied was Anthony of Egypt ... Perhaps the timing was right, then, for the consideration of a new African American Catholic saint. Perhaps it ought to be a man born ...

Accompanying them were the deep, resonant tones of African drums, the rhythmic shake of ensaasi (traditional shakers), and ...

Gelasius is also responsible for a popular celebration which is still marked every year - establishing St Valentine's Day on ...

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 ...

Why, in 2024, are there 11 White American Catholic saints but ... It’s time that the first six African-American candidates for sainthood become full-fledged saints. We the public know of their ...

The Catholic Church's conclave to select the next pope will begin May 7, with some wondering if the church will continue down the path of non-European pontiffs by electing an African pope.

Now predominantly Muslim, North Africa was once a Christian heartland, producing Catholic popes who left ... have been recognised in the Church as saints. Thought to be of Berber origin, Pope ...