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"Conclave" tells the story of Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, dean of the College of Cardinals, played by actor Ralph Fiennes. Lawrence is tasked with leading a papal election or conclave after the pope ...

The conclave takes place at the Sistine Chapel in Vatican ... II selected four cardinals in pectore, revealing only three, from China, Ukraine and Latvia, before he died. The other cardinal’s ...

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VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

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The month of April saw the death of history’s first Latin American pope. Known for his embrace of the downtrodden, Pope Francis, who died of a stroke, signaled a different tone for the papacy, ...

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