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From the longest conclave to the shortest - AP explains the history of electing a pope
The Catholic Church's cardinals are meeting next week at the Vatican to elect the new pope in a centuries-old process called conclave. Recent conclaves took a few days, but the longest-ever in history was nearly three years long.
"Conclave" tells the story of Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, dean of the College of Cardinals, played by actor Ralph Fiennes. Lawrence is tasked with leading a papal election or conclave after the pope ...
Will the adage 'fat pope, thin pope' bear out as cardinals pick a successor to Pope Francis in the May 7 conclave?
Hollywood and the media love intrigue. And the interregnum in the Catholic Church provides much fodder for an institution that has long resisted secularism.
Over-80 cardinals, who cannot vote in the conclave, are lashing out at the Francis papacy, calling for change of course.
Smoke signals have occurred at mid-morning, noon, mid-afternoon and evening. The longest conclave took three years.
and as the Catholic Church mourns his death, it is also looking to the future. On Monday — two days after the pope's funeral — the Vatican confirmed that a papal conclave will begin on May 7 ...
A Catholic scholar explains every step of the conclave process that will determine the successor to the late Pope Francis.
Pope Francis, the Roman Catholic Church's leader for the last 12 years ... participate in a secret vote once on the first day of the conclave and four times on each subsequent day — twice ...
Italians got the next best thing in Pope Francis — the Argentine son of Italian immigrants. But many here wondered whether one of their own would ever again sit on the throne of St. Peter. Now some ...
The conclave will be a "fight for the soul of the Catholic Church" between those who saw promise in the modernising changes ...
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