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Catholic Cardinals celebrate masses in Rome before picking new Pope

Cardinal Sean O'Malley via AFP

Cardinals set for a conclave this week to elect a new leader for the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics celebrated masses across Rome on Sunday, as parishioners picked their papal favourites. Some of the 115 cardinals who will choose a successor to Benedict XVI addressed the faithful before they are shut…

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Fake bishop tries to sneak into Vatican meeting

A cat and a priest, seen at the Vatican as cardinals gather for talks ahead of a conclave to elect a new pope on March 4, 2013. (AFP)

An Italian man dressed up in fake ecclesiastical robes was escorted out of a meeting of Catholic cardinals by Swiss Guards on Monday after trying to sneak into the closed-door Vatican meeting. The man had told reporters that his name was “Basilius” and that he was a member of the…

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