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OSV News
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Movie & Television Reviews
Rich in secrecy and suspense — and endowed with the potential to alter history — the conclave process by which popes have been elected since the 13th century has obvious dramatic appeal.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News
Although conventional wisdom says he is too young to become pope, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, began appearing on media lists of possible future popes soon after he was created a cardinal in September 2023.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, Vatican, World News
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle is a popular speaker who is comfortable in several languages, has traveled extensively and is known for his focus on evangelization and care for the poor and for immigrants.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, Vatican, World News
The face of the Catholic Church’s push to reestablish its relationship with the world of culture, a 59-year-old Portuguese poet and theologian, is among the youngest of the cardinals mentioned as a contender to become the successor of St. Peter.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, Vatican, World News
As successors to the apostles, members of the College of Cardinals are called to follow the example of Christ who came to serve and not be served, the subdean of the college said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
The conclave to elect a new pope, scheduled to begin May 7, is governed by two texts: a rule book and a prayer book.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
The College of Cardinals confirmed that 135 members are eligible to participate in the conclave, the Vatican announced, and they asked the faithful to accompany them in prayer as they prepare to elect the next pope.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, Vatican, World News
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, the Rome-born president of the Italian bishops’ conference, is frequently mentioned as a probable candidate for pope.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, Vatican, World News
Nearing 80 years old, Italian Cardinal Mario Zenari has spent the past 16 years in the wartorn nation of Syria as papal nuncio.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Feature, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
True discipleship is not measured by the creeds Christians recite or the theology they know, but by how deeply they love, a cardinal said at a memorial Mass for Pope Francis.
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Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Commentary
A tidy church would be a dead church, so we may as well just keep to our ugly, vulgar and unseemly ways, remembering that (somehow) we, as church, have birthed so much wisdom and beauty century after tawdry human century!
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, World News
The next pope needs to continue the path set by Pope Francis: Promoting a church that is welcoming, listens to everyone and unifies, some members of the College of Cardinals told reporters April 29.
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