Conclaves and Papal Elections

Pauline Books and Media - Offer a number of features: Choosing a New Pope - Conclave Trivia - Explaining to a child about the process of choosing a new Pope

Pflaum Publications - Offers: A section on electing a new pope with a handout explaining the process of electing a new pope in the past and today; a printable handout explaining who are the people involved in this process.

• Choosing a Pope - BBC News

  A step by step explanation of the process involved in electing a pope. the site offers information uner the following five headings:

  1. Cardinals summoned to Rome;
  2. Secret Conclave;
  3. Voting Rituals;
  4. Reaching a Decision;
  5. New Pope Announced.

• Conclave - 2005
• The College of Cardinals
• Conclaves - in the Catholic Encyclopedia
• Conclaves were once raucous and long by Tom Roberts - National Catholic Reporter
• Election of the Popes - in the Catholic Encyclopedia
• Electing a new pope: FAQs - CBC News Online
• How a pope is elected - by By John L. Allen Jr.
• Papal Election Information From Answers.com
• Universi Dominici Gregis - Apostolic Constitution of Pope John Paul II on the Vacancy of the Apostolic See and the Election of the Roman Pontiff (22 February, 1996) - current procedures regarding the election of the pope.

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