Modern-day conclaves are steeped in mystery: cardinal electors swear an oath of secrecy – and so do the cooks, drivers, ...

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The Oxford Festival of the Arts will celebrate "magnificent Oxford" with a series of events this summer. The festival, founded by Magdalen College School in 2009, will showcase music, theatre, dance, ...

Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe has more of a chance of being Pope than Manchester United have of winning next year’s Premier League ...

Catholic cardinals are gathering at the Vatican to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21. Voting will ...

The Sistine Chapel, with its awe-inspiring Renaissance frescoes, is a majestic stage for the Catholic Church’s most sacred ritual: the election of a new pope. But beneath the sacred decor, conclaves ...

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A successful candidate to replace Pope Francis, who died April 21, will require a two-thirds majority of the voting cardinals. White smoke -- fumata bianca -- will signify that a new pope has been ...

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Black smoke spewed from the Sistine Chapel chimney after the 1st conclave ... a historian of the Catholic Church and a lecturer of history at Oxford University in England. "There has traditionally ...

Black smoke spewed from the Sistine Chapel chimney after the 1st conclave ... a historian of the Catholic Church and a lecturer of history at Oxford University in England. "There has traditionally ...