Roman Catholic cardinals will begin the task of electing a new pope, locking themselves away from the world until they choose ...

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World leaders, cardinals and at least 250,000 of the faithful gathered in the Vatican on Saturday morning to bid farewell to ...

I never knew how much I wanted to go to Rome until I got there.

There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.