Each day between now and the May 7 conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis, John Allen is offering a profile of a different papabile, the Italian term for a man who could be pope. There’s no ...

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Sri Lanka has condemned a federal minister’s remark about a Buddhist monk and an alleged police assault on a Catholic priest, terming them as actions that disrespect ...

Ranjith obtained a bachelor’sdegree in theology from the Pontifical Urban Universityin Rome. He was ordained a priest in 1975. He then earned a licentiate degree in Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical ...

The next pontiff could come from Africa, Italy, or Sri Lanka — possibly even America — but it’s likely that whoever is elected to follow Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, will nudge the ...

The head of Sri Lanka's Roman Catholic Church Sunday called for the government to resign over its alleged failure to investigate an "international conspiracy" behind the deadly Easter bombings.

The Roman Catholic church on Friday urged Sri Lanka not to politicise a visit by the pope in January amid reports that President Mahinda Rajapakse may hold a snap election early next year. Cardinal ...

Speculation is swirling about who could be Pope Francis's successor after his death. But because of the way new popes are elected, it can be a complex question to answer. Let's unpack how a pope is ...

(AP) In one of his first appointments as pope, Benedict XVI picked a Sri Lankan archbishop to return to the Vatican for a top post overseeing the church’s liturgy and rites. The choice of Malcolm ...