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 ...

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

“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 ...

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Christianity flowed from Europe and North America to Africa, often carried by missionaries. But in the 21st century, the pattern has reversed. African-led ...

As the Catholic Church prepares for its May 14 conclave ... of gravity moves increasingly toward the Global South. Three prominent African prelates have emerged as serious contenders for the ...

South African Cardinal Wilfrid Napier this week said the Catholic Church can lead in helping overcome decades of apartheid and racial divide that continue to dominate life in his country.

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.