The term conclave refers to a private meeting or secret assembly, especially a meeting of Roman Catholic cardinals secluded continuously while choosing a pope, according to merriam-webster.com. What ...
A new pope has been chosen. Cardinal Robert Prevost has been named the first American pope in the history of the Catholic Church, USA TODAY reports. He will take the papal name Leo XIV. White smoke ...
Last year Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory became the first African American to participate in a papal conclave, which eventually ...
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As the papal conclave is set to begin to elect a new pope, the eyes of the world are on the Sistine Chapel, which will hold the Catholic cardinals as they cast their votes for the next leader of the ...
Here are some facts about conclaves past, derived from historical studies including Miles Pattenden's “Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450–1700,” and interviews with experts including Elena ...