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Cardinal Vincent Nichols is one of more than 130 electors

The secret meeting of cardinals to elect a new pope is beginning on Wednesday.

Sir Keir Starmer will be there on behalf of the British Government while the Prince of Wales will represent the King.

If you look at Vatican TV live right now, you’ll see a queue of people lining up inside St Peter’s basilica to visit the coffin at the top with the body of Pope Francis. It’s open and you can see the corpse…looking a bit grey, it must be said, but…

Pope Francis’ funeral will mark the first such ceremony for an incumbent pope since the passing of John Paul II in 2005

Of 135 cardinals eligible to take part in choosing successor, late pontiff appointed about 110 including conservatives

One of pontiff’s last acts was to simplify papal rites, stripping away elaborate rituals and scaling back procession

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died, the Vatican said in a video statement on Monday, ending an often

For fans of Conclave, there’s quite the inside story of the real thing in 2013 in the Pope’s new autobiography. We find that he arrived at the cardinals’ guest house with two cassocks and a return ticket to Buenos Aires. He was frisked, like the other cardinal electors, for phones,…