Rome's Next Choice? [TIME: "Arch-Conservative" Ratzinger is top Papabile]
Lent in the Vatican: The Pope, the Curia, and the Conclave ( Who's On First )
WILL INDIAN PONTIFF SUCCEED POPE?
POPE: 117 CARDINALS ON STANDBY FOR CONCLAVE
Papal Transition (what happens between one pope and the next)
Vatican Bracing for Papal Succession
When Sad Day Comes, Eyes of World Will Be on Papal Selection [How next Pope will be chosen]
Mahony Flies To Rome For Solemnities, Conclave (Cardinal from Los Angeles to Visit Vatican)
Interview with Cardinal José Saraiva Martins
Cardinals Head to Vatican for Conclave
Pope's Election Shocked Communist Poland ~~ On an icy October night a quarter-century ago.....
The Next Pope? Twenty leading possibilities
The quest stands upon the edge of a knife... (Hewitt on the Conclave)
Date for election of new pope set (April 18)
The College of Cardinals - What is it, why is it, what they do, and who they are.
Looks like about 8 or so USA cardinals and about 30 or so Italians.
The US is much larger in terms of Catholic population, isn't it.....why the disparity?
Just watching the pictures from Rome, and for some reason, I recalled something I read, or heard, years ago, and wanted to find out if it was correct?..
Not sure if it is the case now, but at one time there was NO doctrinal requirement that the next Pope be a Cardinal. He could just be a parish priest. Not even sure if he had to be a priest? Is this correct?..Thanks..