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Jokes and prayers from cardinals at city churches as Vatican installs chimney on Sistine chapel roof It was a mass with a difference. For one thing, there were more worshippers in the Santa Maria della Vittoria church than usual. ("Come back!" begged the excited local priest. |
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Cardinals have prayed for guidance ahead of a secret conclave to choose a new pope to lead the Catholic Church. |
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Cardinals took a break from maneuvering ahead of this week's papal conclave to fan out across Rome and celebrate Sunday Mass at local parishes. |
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In parishes throughout Rome, cardinals seek prayers for church with papal conclave 2 days away |
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinals took a break from maneuvering ahead of this week's papal conclave to fan out across Rome and celebrate Sunday Mass at local parishes. |
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinals took a break from maneuvering ahead of this week's papal conclave to fan out across Rome and celebrate Sunday Mass at local parishes. The worship services provided a chance to see the cardinals up close and hear them preach two days before they enter the conclave. |
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Roman Catholic Cardinals prayed on Sunday for spiritual guidance ahead of a closed-door conclave to choose a new pope to lead the Church at one of the most difficult periods in its history. Cardinals will hold a final pre-conclave meeting on Monday to discuss the state of.... |
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Two days before the cardinals hold a conclave to select the next pope, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan was treated like a celebrity during a visit on Sunday to a neighborhood church in Rome. |
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Preparations at the site of Tuesday's papal conclave include a high-tech scrubbing of the chapel for bugs and electronic monitoring equipment. Wi-Fi will be blocked throughout Vatican City, and cardinals with Twitter and Facebook accounts have been warned. |
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Cardinals from around the world gather this week in a conclave to elect a new pope following the stunning resignation of Benedict XVI. In the secretive world of the Vatican, there is no way to know who is in the running, and history has yielded plenty of surprises. Yet several names have come up repeatedly as strong contenders. |