The cardinals who are electing the next pope sometimes look as ideologically polarized as many secular voters around the globe. Many conservative Roman Catholic Church leaders disagreed with Pope ...

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Reaffirming Christian values, Pope Leo XIV on Friday, May 16, said that the family is founded on the “stable union between a ...

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One of the most unifying elements of the Medieval Period was the Roman Catholic Church. All classes and ranks of people, whether that be nobles, peasants or tradesmen, were profoundly affected by the ...

Secret ballots: The cardinals vote by hand, writing in the name of the man -- and it must be a baptized Roman Catholic man -- they wanted to be pope. The first vote took place Wednesday afternoon.