Cardinals head to conclave to elect head of a church beset by woes
Publié
par
Clifford Armion
le 03/12/2013
Activer le mode zenCrispian Balmer and Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Roman Catholic cardinals gather under the gaze of Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" on Tuesday to elect a new pope to tackle the daunting problems facing the 1.2-billion-member Church at one of the most difficult periods in its history.The 115 cardinal electors aged under 80 began moving early on Tuesday into the Vatican's Santa Martha hotel, where they will live during the conclave, which starts in the afternoon.
Under an early morning drizzle and to the applause and waves of seminarians, eight of the 11 American cardinal electors left the North American College seminary in a minibus bound for the Vatican to join the other three who already live in Rome.
Read on...
Pour citer cette ressource :
"Cardinals head to conclave to elect head of a church beset by woes", La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), décembre 2013. Consulté le 19/04/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/archives/archives-revue-de-presse/cardinals-head-to-conclave-to-elect-head-of-a-church-beset-by-woes