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Conclave to elect next pope will begin May 7
By Justin McLellan , Catholic News Service
The College of Cardinals has 252 members, but only 135 of them - those who were under 80 when Pope Francis died April 21 -- are eligible to enter the conclave May 7, 2025, to elect a new pope. The country count may differ based on whether one considers where the cardinal was born or where he exercises his ministry. Graphic: CNS/Jerome Podojil, USCC...
SPECIAL REPORT: “A Gift of Love and Service”: Perth Archbishop Leads Local Tributes Following the Death of Pope Francis
Reflecting on Pope Francis’ historic election in 2013 as the first Jesuit, first Latin American, and first non-European pope in over a millennium, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB praised Pope Francis’ bold pastoral approach and deep personal witness.
Pope Francis looks back on his life, urges people to look to future with hope
The cover of "Hope," described as an autobiography by Pope Francis, is seen in October 2024, the date an Italian publisher announced its worldwide publication scheduled for 14 January 2025, including by Viking in the United Kingdom. Photo: CNS/courtesy Viking.
While calling himself an "old man" and saying he never expected to be pope this long, the now deceased Pope Francis said he still ha...
Precise rules govern what happens in period between popes
The instructions are found in St John Paul II’s 1996 Apostolic Constitution, Univer-si Dominici Gregis, which was revised by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007 and again just before he resigned in 2013.
Pope Francis on Easter: Jesus’ resurrection makes Christians pilgrims of hope
“Together with the risen Jesus,” Pope Francis wrote his final message to the world on Easter Sunday 20 April, those who trust in God “become pilgrims of hope, witnesses of the victory of love and of the disarmed power of life.”
SPECIAL FEATURE PART ONE: Francis the bridge-builder: A Pope intent on reaching the peripheries
In a three-part series exclusive to The Record, Dr Marco Ceccarelli takes an in-depth look at the life works of Pope Francis.
Never the one to lose hope, explains Ceccarelli, Pope Francis answered to problems within and outside of the Church by prescribing a culture of encounter and dialogue between people of good will.
Clericalism was chief target of Pope Francis’ teaching
Pope Francis’ campaign against clericalism was waged when meeting both ordinary parish priests and “princes of the church,” as cardinals once were known.
Pope Francis’ Pontificate: A Timeline
This is a timeline of the life of Pope Francis. Photo: OSV News graphic/Chelsea Alt.
Francis took pastoral and practical approach against abuse
Pope Francis listened to survivors carefully with great empathy, and he regularly met with them privately, Father Zollner said. He tried to be a model for all Catholics and especially those in authority, he added.
Francis, ‘the Pope of tenderness,’ had ‘a heart operating’ on God’s frequency
Over the course of his 12 year pontificate, Pope Francis never relented in his ap-peals to world leaders and ordinary citizens to treat migrants humanely.
