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Expectant crowds await smoke above Vatican as conclave deliberates new pope — live updates
Following nine days of mourning over Pope Francis's passing on 21 April, 133 cardinals representing 70 countries have ...
A battle for the soul of the Catholic Church: What's at stake in conclave this week
And they will determine whether the adage "fat pope, thin pope" holds true or whether the next leader of the Catholic Church ...
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As Conclave Begins, it’s Business as Usual at the Vatican … Sort of
As the conclave dominates conversation in Rome—from morning espresso speculation to taxi driver frustrations—tourists ...
The Latest: Catholic cardinals to sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of the conclave
The 133 cardinals from 70 countries will be locked inside the Sistine Chapel, where they will vote in secret and silence, a ...
No phones, no news — only God and church politics as Catholic elders choose Francis' successor
On the eve of the conclave to elect the next pope, the world's smallest country, Vatican City, is engulfed in commotion as ...
What's in a papal name? An agenda for the Catholic Church
When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio emerged onto the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica after the conclave of March 2013, few ...
Vatican to deactivate mobile phone signal ahead of secret meeting to elect new pope
All mobile phone signal will be deactivated in the Vatican on Wednesday ahead of the highly secretive conclave to elect the ...
The divides behind the scenes in the Vatican ahead of the conclave
There has been a growing coalescence around the idea that Pope Francis's work to radically shake up the workings of the ...