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Conclave to select new pope begins May 7 in Vatican City. What New Yorkers should know
A papal conclave is set to begin in Vatican City starting May 7, during which cardinals from around the world will elect the next leader of the Roman Catholic church. The tradition occurs any time a pope dies or resigns from the office. Pope Francis died April 21, the day after Easter.
For the first time, the majority of cardinals to choose a pope are not from Europe, as Catholic demographics shift. But ...
The secret ballot for a successor hasn’t begun. But among church leaders, talk about who will next lead the 2,000-year-old ...
In its 800-year history, a conclave has never been this diverse. How will this changing face of Catholicism impact the result ...
As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...
Hundreds of cardinals attended mass inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Sunday, to mark the end of a nine-day mourning ...
The rules and rituals for the election of a new pope say that immediately after his election, he goes into the sacristy of ...
"And so it is what is, I guess, but it's very unfortunate," said Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey S. Grob. "It's a very serious ...
The process of choosing a pope will have little if any of the zero-sum scheming common among bitterly divided U.S.
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