Catholics are learning all kinds of fun new tidbits about the new Holy Father, and we're also starting to notice a pattern developing.
The Argentine Chamber of Deputies got into a little scuffle on Wednesday afternoon after Jorge Mario Bergoglio was named Pope Francis. Weird, right? You'd think they'd be celebrating.
As Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio emerged Wednesday at a joyous Vatican and took the papal name Francis, there was no joy on Facebook for guys with the name Francis Pope — or Frank Pope, for that matter. We got in touch with one, and he's used to it.
As the world began to meet Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the 76-year-old virgin and Argentine Jesuit Cardinal with one lung who will be known as Pope Francis I, Catholics everywhere jumped and cried for joy. Here's the tale of celebration in St. Peter's Square, from smoke to wave.
After five ballots and just over a day, the 115 cardinal electors have selected Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the new successor to the Apostle Peter and head of the Catholic Church. He will assume the papal name Francis. Here's what you need to know.
The papal conclave has concluded and Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina is now the first Latin American pope in the history of the Catholic Church.
As threatened, Dennis Rodman has arrived in Rome, on a mission to promote world peace endorse a candidate for the papacy plug a website.
The results of the first papal conclave vote are in and ... we still don't have a pope.
If the papal conclave were set up like college basketball's March Madness, Cardinal Angelo Scola would have been a No. 1 seed — until today's anti-mafia investigation caught up with him.
An electoral process that's been around for over 1,000 years provides a lot of data. For those of you interested in historical trends, or those of you betting on voting results, here's the numeric breakdown of what past conclaves have offered.
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Fresh off of his success luring the Korean peninsula back to the brink of war, basketball star and self-appointed diplomat Dennis Rodman has decided on his next mission for the greater good of mankind: meeting the new pope.
In just a matter of hours, the College of Cardinals will gather to cast their first vote on a new pope, but don't expect a winner to be chosen today.
With the papal conclave arriving, the College of Cardinals must not have been pleased as reports circulated that the Vatican shared a block with Italy's top gay sauna. It's just the latest in a brand of secrecy that's let the conspiracy theorists run rampant.
Can it possibly be believed that these TV and newspaper reporters, being dropped by parachute into Vatican City, hanging around near (but never really among) the cardinal electors, can in a few days time make friends and forge alliances with sources that are likely to deliver them credible news?
The papal election begins tomorrow, but just because the vote is done in secret, that doesn't mean there isn't a campaign.
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The Vatican is officially on lockdown as the College of Cardinals makes final preparations for the papal conclave taht starts on Tuesday — including countermeasures to prevent any leaks. So what are they talking about behind closed doors?
The College of Cardinals begins arriving in Rome for the papal conclave today, but one who won't be joining them has apologized for the inappropriate conduct that ended his career.
The Vatican admitted on Wednesday that Pope Benedict XVI may issue a decree to speed up the process to select his successor, to prevent the Catholic Church from being leaderless at an important time of the year.
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