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Pope Francis’ official symbols hint at simplicity, humility

Alessandro Speciale | Mar 18, 2013

VATICAN CITY (RNS) In a sign of how much change Pope Francis may usher into the papacy, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodoxy will attend Tuesday’s installation Mass — for the first time in more than 1,000 years.

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Faithful visitors, holding umbrellas, look at a giant screen showing the start of the papal conclave, under a statue of St. Peter on St. Peter's Square on Tuesday (March 12) at the Vatican. RNS photo by Andrea Sabbadini

Loss of papacy leaves some Italians grumbling

Eric Lyman | Mar 18, 2013

ROME (RNS) “With each conclave, fewer and fewer people will even remember when there was an Italian pope,” says La Stampa’s Giacomo Galeazzi.

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What Pope Benedict XVI shares with his notorious namesake

Daniel Burke | Feb 26, 2013

(RNS) The last Pope Benedict to resign, Benedict IX, was an infamous rake who sold the papacy. But like his 21st-century namesake, Benedict IX forces Catholics to mind the gap between the mortal man and the sacred papal office.

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Benedict XVI’s poll numbers can’t match John Paul II’s

Lauren Markoe | Feb 21, 2013

(RNS) Pope Benedict XVI never inspired the deep admiration enjoyed by his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, but Americans – and Catholic Americans even more so – still look favorably upon the soon-to-be-former head of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Catholic migration, and why the next pope should be Brazilian

Daniel Burke | Feb 14, 2013

A new analysis of Catholic population shifts raises questions about the upcoming papal election.

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Pope Benedict XVI kisses an infant as he leaves one of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in 2007.  RNS photo by Gregory A. Shemitz.

Pope Benedict’s American fan club full of evangelicals

Daniel Burke | Feb 12, 2013

(RNS) Not all Catholics appreciated Pope Benedict XVI’s staunch defense of Christian orthodoxy, traditional marriage and life from conception to natural death. But American evangelicals sure did.

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Electing a new pope draws on tradition and secrecy

Alessandro Speciale | Feb 11, 2013

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI will soon become the first pope to resign since 1415, short-circuiting many of the initial stages of electing a new pope. But the Vatican says the transition to a new papacy shouldn’t be all that different from normal.

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