ROME — As the cardinals walk into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday evening to open the papal conclave, they’ll chant the plaintive prayer that their forebears have sung for centuries: Veni Creator ...

Pope Francis added that if Catholics did not have the prayer on hand, they could simply pray “Come, Holy Spirit” — as “the Madonna and the Apostles prayed during the days when Christ ...

The same apostles then fall asleep in Gethsemane too, during the anguished prayer ... the Spirit of God. And when we are unable to overcome this, we must say to the Holy Spirit: 'Help us, come ...

So we invoke the Holy Spirit to come down with his gifts upon the cardinals ... The cardinals have been focused on prayer in the days leading up to the conclave — and invited the rest ...