The Vatican’s special envoy was Cardinal Peter Turkson, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. According to ...

Cardinal Turkson, who speaks six languages, became the first president of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development in 2016 after his pontifical council was merged into the new body along ...

Cardinal Peter Turkson appeared to reject claims that President Joe Biden should be denied Holy Communion over his staunch pro-abortion rights stand, in remarks to a U.S. news show Sunday that touched ...

ROME — Pope Francis on Dec. 23 accepted the resignation of Cardinal Peter Turkson as head of the Vatican's office for peace and justice, signaling a complete organizational overhaul of the ...

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Often cast as the social conscience of the church, Ghana’s Cardinal Peter Turkson is viewed by many as the top African contender for pope. The 64-year-old head of the Vatican’s ...

*Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, a 76-year-old Ghanaian prelate, is widely regarded as a leading candidate to succeed Pope Francis, who passed away on April 21, 2025. If elected, Turkson would ...

Pope Francis is giving "very strong recognition" to a landmark conference held at the Vatican last spring that called on the global Catholic church to reject its long-held teachings on just war theory ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, seen here with Pope Francis in 2015, could become the first Asian pontiff - Wally Santana With the ...

As the Vatican makes a concerted effort to influence the outcome of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris later this month, one of the leading Vatican authorities on Pope Francis’ encyclical, ...

ALBANY — If Peter Cardinal Turkson is picked as the next Pope this week, he’ll owe it to the troubled youth of upstate New York. The Ghanaian cardinal, whom oddsmakers have made one of the favorites ...