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As the Church honors the life and legacy of Pope Francis, Archbishop Pérez invites everyone to pray for the College of ...
Fans of the Oscar-nominated movie “Conclave,” which is about a papal election, might think they have a head start on what’s ...
The proportion of cardinal electors from Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, and countries in ...
The Oscar-winning film stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini and offers a fictionalized, high-stakes ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Voting to elect Pope Francis’ successor will begin on May 7 in Rome. Local ...
The secret vote that elected Pope Gregory X lasted from November 1268 to September 1271. It was the first example of a papal ...
After every two rounds of voting in the Sistine Chapel, the ballots of the cardinals are burned in a special furnace to ...
Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle has replaced Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin as the new favorite to become the next pope ...
The unprecedented number of 133 cardinal electors surpasses all previous papal conclaves, breaking the previous record of 115 electors in the 2005 and 2013 elections.
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 ...