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While an African pope would be a historically stunning development, just one of the drawbacks is that no African cardinal holds a major office in the Vatican.
On May 7, an expected 133 cardinal electors will enter the Sistine Chapel to elect the new Roman pontiff, the successor to Pope Francis, who shied away from giving red hats to the traditional ...
Theoretically, church law allows the College of Cardinals to elect any Catholic man in the world to become the next pope – but in reality, as has been the case for more than 600 years ...
Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the ...