Hope, apprehension and politics: Cardinals search for new pope

Hope, apprehension, and politics: Cardinals gather while Catholic Church prepares for conclave to choose new pope

VATICAN CITY, April 26 — Arriving in Rome after Pope Francis’s death, Catholic cardinals have admitted some apprehension at the responsibility of choosing his successor, as they begin setting out what they hope to see in the next head of the Church. The task of choosing a new pope to replace the Argentine, who died on Monday aged 88, “is beyond us and yet requires us”, said French cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, summing up the mood after celebrating…

It was for two decades the correspondent of the Spanish daily ABC in the Vatican, experience that allows John Vicente Boo to know as few the intricacies of the functioning and politics of the Holy See. He covered the last two conclaves and worked during three popes, John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis. In 2021 he published Deciphering the Vatican, an indispensable book to know the structure, logics and secrets of the Holy See. From Santiago_d…

BOB BIRD: Catholic or not, pray for a holy and faithful pope

With the death of the most controversial pope in centuries, perhaps of all time, the entire planet will be focusing on the election of a new supreme pontiff for the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. You do not have to be Catholic in order to fully grasp the significance of this event.

Vatican City, Holy See. Some of the cardinals who will participate in the Conclave 2025 to elect the successor of Francis assured that they face this mission with “apprehension”, “responsibility” and “hope”, while beginning to outline the profile of the future pope: a “unifier”. The twelve years of pontificate of the first Latin American pope were marked by reforms and a simple style, which earned him the harsh opposition of the most conservativ…

Hope, apprehension and politics: Cardinals search for new pope

Arriving in Rome after Pope Francis's death, Catholic cardinals have admitted some apprehension at the responsibility of choosing his successor, as they begin setting out what they hope to see in the next head of the Church.

Filipino cardinals start arriving in Rome ahead of Pope Francis funeral, conclave

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