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Fans of the Oscar-nominated movie “Conclave,” which is about a papal election, might think they have a head start on what’s ...
Pope Francis's death at the age of 88 means the Catholic Church must choose a new leader. Here's how cardinals elect the next ...
The world won’t know the next leader of the world’s Catholics until he appears before a throng of supporters in St. Peter’s ...
Hollywood and the media love intrigue. And the interregnum in the Catholic Church provides much fodder for an institution ...
The conclave is a time-honored process conducted in secrecy behind the locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.
Not only did Pope Francis value and promote the dignity of labor, he was someone who personally worked extremely hard, finding joy and rest in work itself, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández said at the ...
In preparations for next week’s conclave to elect a new pope, a chimney has been installed atop the Sistine Chapel to signal ...
At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...
The Vatican is finalizing preparations for the May 7 conclave, with firefighters on Friday installing a chimney on the roof ...
Ahead of the 2013 conclave to replace Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan was tipped to restore the papal hat ...