IN PHOTOS: Cardinals hold last mass before conclave to elect pope
The Peninsula
Vatican City: Cardinals from five continents held a final mass in St Peter s Basilica in the Vatican on Wednesday before sealing themselves away to el...
Vatican City: Cardinals from five continents held a final mass in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on Wednesday before sealing themselves away to elect a new pope to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.
A total of 133 cardinal electors are expected to take part in the conclave, the voting process to pick a successor to Pope Francis, who died last month after a 12-year papacy.
No clear frontrunner has emerged from among the prelates -- representing a range of progressive and conservative traditions within the Church -- and the contest to lead the 2,000-year-old institution appears wide open.
In a time of geopolitical uncertainty, the new pope faces diplomatic balancing acts, as well as Church infighting, the continued fall-out from the clerical child abuse scandal, and -- in the West -- increasingly empty pews.
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