UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter
by Pam Cohen | Feb. 18, 2013
The question’s been floating around since Feb. 11: Who will be chosen to be the next pope after Pope Benedict XVI steps down Feb. 28?
There’s no set date for the conclave yet, but there are lists all across the Internet of papabili, and everyone’s talking about who might be the cardinal who gets chosen.
Because of this, we’ve assembled our own conclave: the conclave of the people of God. We’ll start with the 117 cardinals eligible to vote in the conclave, then next Monday, we’ll take the 25 cardinals with the most votes and vote again, then the top 10, and so on until we’re down to the one cardinal you, the readers, think will be chosen to be pope.
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