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Cardinals will take part in a conclave in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope. Here's a brief glossary of the ...
This is a period known as the 'Novemdiales', and it starts today with the funeral of Pope Francis. It's a tradition of nine ...
Under current Vatican rules, only cardinals under the age of 80 are allowed to cast a vote for pope. The Vatican's press ...
Out of the 135 voting cardinals, Pope Francis appointed 108, accounting for 80% of them. Pope Benedict XVI appointed 22, and ...
While the world mourns the passing of Pope Francis on April 21, the Catholic Church is preparing to choose a new leader.
Pope Francis died Monday, according to the Vatican, setting off the formal process to select his successor, known as a ...
Before his death, Pope Francis greeted the Easter crowd in Vatican City inside an all-electric Mercedes-Benz popemobile.
With his death April 21, Pope Francis marked yet another first in the history of the Catholic Church: he became the first ...
Cardinal Robert Walter McElroy, a native Californian and former leader of San Diego Catholic, is a candidate for the papacy.
Lying in state at St Peter’s Basilica, Francis’s body is low to the ground without any papal regalia next to his body. While ...