The Conclave: A Sometimes Secret and Occasionally Bloody History of Papal Elections by Michael J. Walsh

The Conclave: A Sometimes Secret and Occasionally Bloody History of Papal Elections

Michael J. Walsh

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nonfiction history religion
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In 1271, with the papal throne vacant for over two years, local officials locked the cardinals of the Catholic Church in a room, forcing them to select a new pope. From this inauspicious beginning arose the practice of the conclave, the highly sec...

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