Cardinals today still have the chance to lobby behind closed doors for their favored candidate during a conclave. The divine ...
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Catholic cardinals play a key role in secular politics as well as the Catholic Church–and the importance of Pope Francis’ choice to head the church in DCBut by the end of the 11th century, with the help of powerful European leaders called the Holy Roman Emperors, a series of reform-minded clerics were named pope. One of them, Pope Nicholas II ...
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Papal elections aren’t always as dramatic as ‘Conclave’I’m a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three volumes of “The Cambridge History of the Papacy.” So it was more or less ma ...
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