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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
Ambrogio Piazzoni, then-vice prefect of the Vatican Library and author of a book on the history of papal elections, distributed a sheet of “some curiosities” about the elections to reporters in 2013, after Pope Benedict announced his resignation and before Pope Francis was elected.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
The cardinals who enter the Sistine Chapel May 7 to elect a new pope use smoke signals to communicate with the outside world.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
The conclave to elect a new pope is scheduled to begin May 7 in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: En Español
El Papa Francisco fue “un Papa en medio de la gente, con un corazón abierto hacia todos”, dijo el cardenal Giovanni Battista Re, decano del Colegio Cardenalicio, al presidir el funeral del pontífice, fallecido el 21 de abril a los 88 años.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis was “a pope among the people, with an open heart toward everyone,” said Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, as he presided over the funeral of the pope, who died April 21 at the age of 88.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
Whether Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who relinquished the rights associated with being a cardinal after he was forced to resign in 2020, will be able to enter the conclave to elect a new pope is an ongoing question.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, Synodality, Vatican, World News
While Pope Francis often bucked formality and sidestepped some offices of the Roman Curia, one institution he believed in deeply was the Synod of Bishops and — even more — the notion of “synodality.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Uncategorized
A Benedictine abbot and a Capuchin cardinal will offer spiritual meditations on the needs of the Catholic Church to the cardinals preparing to elect a new pope, according to the Vatican press office.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
Given the late Pope Francis’ care and concern for the poor, a representative group of them has been formally invited to welcome his casket to Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major for burial.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Novels and films that include or revolve around a conclave often include nefarious plotting, or at least politicking, and attempts to wing it when it comes to the rules for electing a new pope.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
The pontificate of Pope Francis did not result in breakthrough theological agreements with other Christians, but huge strides were made in personal relations and practical cooperation.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
Thousands of people had made an early morning pilgrimage to St. Peter’s Square April 23 to witness the transfer and pray for the late pope; they erupted in applause when his body, in an open casket, reached the square and again when it reached the top of the basilica steps.
