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This pre-conclave period has been like no other in modern history. Beyond the mass media attention, and the corresponding reaction of the Cardinals to clam up, there is the simple fact that the election of a Polish pope last time has opened the range of potential pontiffs to the...
Jordan well knows the folly of seeking that magic name. Currently a contributor in Berlin, he had been TIME's Rome bureau chief in 1978. The week before the conclave that elected the virtually unknown Karol Wojtyla, TIME was one of just a handful of publications in the world to...
Friday, April 15, 11 pm, Vatican City Time is getting short, folks. Less than 72 hours until the 115 elector Cardinals will stride into the Sistine Chapel and take a vow to "observe faithfully and scrupulously" the secret and solemn rite for electing the next Supreme Pontiff of the Roman...
At the moment, an initial duel appears to be shaping up between Germany's Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and Italy's Dionigi Cardinal Tettamanzi. The former Archbishop of Munich, who for the past 23 years was Pope John Paul II's doctrinal watchdog, is being promoted by a swath of electors...
One source close to Ratzinger, however, says the white-haired cardinal, who gave the homily at John Paul's funeral, is letting his colleagues know that he doesn't want to be an early candidate. If no consensus grows around an alternative, he might then be willing to be a...