At the time, the church was beset by crises, from corruption to clerical sexual abuse. Stan Chu Ilo, a Catholic ... Africa. Particularly, Pope Francis believes in decentralisation and local processes ...

Pope Francis’s recent hospitalisation due to a lung infection has sparked questions regarding the leadership of the Catholic Church should the pontiff become incapacitated. Despite the Pope’s apparent ...

Pope Francis marks 12 years as the leader of the Catholic Church, emerging from a month-long hospital stay with health concerns looming over his future.

One example of this is in South Africa, where many people assumed that ... There was therefore little reason for Mozambicans to see the church as a defender of the nation. On the contrary ...