You?ve made your picks for the Sweet Sistine, right? If you haven?t, check out the RNS papal brackets.
(Papal basketball fun fact: Pope John Paul II was an honorary member of the Harlem Globetrotters. True.)
This is a brutal tourney. Just look what happened to Scottish Cardinal Keith O?Brien. Had to resign after sex-abuse allegations.? . . . . And then there were 115. (Cardinals of voting age in the conclave.)
Picking the pope ain?t for the faint-hearted, David Gibson explains.
It?s also not for the tardy. Cardinals who have not already booked their flights to Rome better hurry up, as Benedict XVI, who resigns on Thursday, has decided to allow the College of Cardinals to waive the usually required 15-20 day waiting period between the end of the pontificate and the beginning of the conclave.
Benedict will be ?His Holiness Benedict XVI, Roman pontiff emeritus? in retirement. He gets to keep the cassock, but will lose the red shoes.
Benedict?s critics say he leaves a holy mess at the Vatican.
For the new pope?s eyes only: the Vatileaks investigation report.
Send peanut butter, says New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, if the conclave meets past Palm Sunday.
Read the rest of the roundup?for the latest in other religion news, such as apologies -- including the one Fox News made to Wiccans.
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