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 ...

The Vatican is in mourning following the death of Pope Francis. Crowds of mourners have been gathering at St Peter’s Basilica, where his body has been on display since Wednesday morning. The pope, who ...

*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 ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Peter Turkson said Monday that the ordination of married men will likely be the subject of further study for the universal Church after the Amazon synod. “This issue will ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The University of Saint Francis (USF) announced that Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson will be the featured speaker for the 2021 Commencement. “Cardinal Turkson’s ...

Pope Francis’ coming encyclical on climate change — the first-ever high-level papal document focused solely on the environment — won’t be published until June, at the earliest. But the Vatican has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

With all due to respect to John Allen's "papabile profile" of Ghanian Cardinal Peter Turkson, those who have commented on his piece are right to raise the concern that Allen does not highlight Turkson ...