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For the first time, the majority of cardinals to choose a pope are not from Europe, as Catholic demographics shift. But ...
"And so it is what is, I guess, but it's very unfortunate," said Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey S. Grob. "It's a very serious ...
There are currently 135 cardinals who are under age 80 and eligible to vote in the conclave, hailing from 71 different ...
As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...
As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent ...
Among the roughly 1.4 billion Catholics around the world, many are keenly anticipating the upcoming conclave at the Vatican ...
The secret ballot for a successor hasn’t begun. But among church leaders, talk about who will next lead the 2,000-year-old ...
The process of choosing a pope will have little if any of the zero-sum scheming common among bitterly divided U.S.