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While Pope Francis accomplished a lot in his 12-year papacy, he left much unfinished business and many challenges for his ...
Pope Francis died at age 88 on April 21, setting off a series of centuries-old rituals to select a new leader of the Catholic ...
In today’s world, with new technologies mixed with social media, one could excuse a 19-year-old trying to get a laugh on the ...
From cash bets on websites to online games and casual wagers among friends, experts and participants say the popularity of ...
Vatican firefighters have installed the iconic chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, a key step ahead of the May 7 conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Black smoke = no pope yet; white smoke = a new ...
VATICAN CITY >> If Roman Catholic cardinals have not picked a new pope by day three of next week’s conclave, then things are ...
Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking the same spirit to his first conclave that's guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...
At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...