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The cardinals who enter the Sistine Chapel use smoke signals to let the outside world know when a new pope has been chosen.
It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...
First of all, the conclave has a rule that if the voting takes too long, then a pope can be elected with a 50+1 percent of ...
Smoke signals have occurred at mid-morning, noon, mid-afternoon and evening. The longest conclave took three years.
Conclave” the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic ...
Conclave” the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic ...
In the 13th century, it took almost three years — 1,006 days to be exact — to choose Pope Clement IV’s successor, making it the longest conclave in the Catholic Church’s history. It’s also where the ...