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Vatican: Italian cardinal, convicted for fraud, says won’t enter papal conclave to elect next pope
Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the most senior Catholic Church official to have been convicted, announced on Tuesday that he ...
What happens when a Pope dies: Rituals and rules for the conclave and transition period
Pope Francis passed away on 21 April after an extended illness. Now that he has been laid to rest the Catholic Church will ...
Disgraced Cardinal Becciu withdraws from conclave to elect pope for ‘the good of the church’
Angelo Becciu was forced to resign as head of the Vatican’s saint-making office and his rights as a cardinal because of ...
Disgraced Cardinal Becciu formally withdraws from participation in conclave to elect pope
The Italian cardinal at the heart of the Vatican’s “trial of the century” announced Tuesday he was withdrawing from ...
What is a conclave? What to know about the secretive process to elect the next pope
Cardinals have no contact with the outside world after the master of liturgical ceremonies utters the words “Extra Omnes” the ...
The next pope will inherit Pope Francis' mixed legacy with Indigenous people
Whoever succeeds Pope Francis will inherit his momentous and controversial legacy of relations with Indigenous people ...
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Five pivotal moments in Pope Francis’ relations with Native communities in the Americas
Building on years of appeals from Native people to Francis, the Vatican formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery,” the legal theories backed by 15th-century papal bulls decrees that legitimized ...