VATICAN CITY
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CATHOLIC cardinals have begun talks ahead of a conclave to elect a new pope after Benedict XVI’s resignation, as an absent British cardinal admits to sexual misconduct with priests.
Monday’s Vatican meetings will set the date for the start of the conclave this month and help identify candidates among the cardinals to be the next leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics.
“We’re going to take as much time as we need to think about what sort of pope the Church needs now,” French cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois told reporters as he arrived for Monday’s meetings.
“I’d be keen to have a polyglot, a man of faith, a man of dialogue … The new pope will certainly have to confront problems within the Curia,” the government of the Catholic Church, he said.
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