The conclave to elect a new pope, scheduled to begin May 7, is governed by two texts: a rule book and a prayer book.

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The new pope, Leo XIV, is scheduled to deliver his first such prayer on Sunday from the loggia where he first appeared in ...

Billingham's parish applied to close the town's 1,000-year-old St Cuthbert's Church last year due to rising costs and falling attendance. Friends of St Cuthbert's Church was formed to save it and ...

The prayer book is the "Ordo Rituum Conclavis" ("Rites of the Conclave"), which was approved by St. John Paul II in 1998, but not released until after his death in 2005. If Pope Francis made any ...

other than he was a Hermit of England and a good friend of St. Cuthbert. Herbert was a priest, and lived as a recluse on an island in Lake Derwentwater, England which later became St. Herbert’s ...

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A new book is celebrating the history of St. Paul Parks through coloring. The book features 20 different parks. Featuring Chinese gardens and the pagodas at Phalen Park to Suni Lee’s statue ...

Billingham's parish applied to close the town's 1,000-year-old St Cuthbert's Church last year due to rising costs and falling attendance. Friends of St Cuthbert's Church was formed to save it and ...

Northern Trust Land has submitted outline plans for the development of up to 180 new homes at a site within the St Cuthbert’s Garden Village development in Carlisle. The proposed development is ...