These Contentious Issues Could Determine Who Becomes the Next Pope
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These Contentious Issues Could Determine Who Becomes the Next Pope

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The cardinals who have traveled to Rome to elect the next pope at a conclave next week sometimes look as ideologically polarized as many secular voters around the globe. At first glance, they appear to split along the kinds of left-right lines that…

Cardinal Who Threatened to Crash the Conclave Now Says He Won’t
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Cardinal Who Threatened to Crash the Conclave Now Says He Won’t

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines When more than 130 cardinals solemnly file into the Sistine Chapel on May 7 to begin voting on who among them will lead the Roman Catholic Church as the next pope, there will be one cardinal left out in the cold. Cardinal Angelo…

Cardinals Are Maneuvering Before Conclave To Elect Francis’ Successor
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Cardinals Are Maneuvering Before Conclave To Elect Francis’ Successor

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Even before Pope Francis was entombed in a Rome basilica on Saturday, conservative cardinals who felt his pontificate was a divisive disaster that endangered the church’s traditions had begun politicking to sway the conclave electing the next pope. They have a seductively simple…

Pope Francis, Who Sought a More Pastoral Church, Laid to Rest in a Majestic Ceremony
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Pope Francis, Who Sought a More Pastoral Church, Laid to Rest in a Majestic Ceremony

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In a solemn and majestic funeral on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Roman Catholic Church on Saturday laid to rest Pope Francis, the first South American pope, whose simple style, pastoral vision and outsized footprint on the world stage both reinvigorated…

As Pope Francis Ails, Outlandish Rumors Run Wild
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As Pope Francis Ails, Outlandish Rumors Run Wild

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines On Tuesday night, outside the Rome hospital where Pope Francis is being treated for a complex lung infection, the 8th King of Rome, a self-described “trash influencer” embarked on a secret mission. He wore a wig, hid his pink-and-blue-dyed beard behind a surgical…

Opinion | Pope Francis Projects a Lonely Moral Voice in a New World of Politics and Trump
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Opinion | Pope Francis Projects a Lonely Moral Voice in a New World of Politics and Trump

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Pope Francis has been in a Rome hospital for a month, battling double pneumonia and its complications. His condition would be serious for anyone but could be more threatening for an 88-year-old man who had part of a lung removed as a youth…

Anxious Prayers as Pope Francis Lingers in Critical Condition
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Anxious Prayers as Pope Francis Lingers in Critical Condition

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Vatican City is an anxious place. Clergy keep their phones by their pillows. Reporters, crammed in the Holy See press office, open emails with trepidation. Faithful have begun to gather expectantly in St. Peter’s Square. All await terse bulletins from the Vatican on…