Choosing a pope: What qualities the cardinals will look for in the conclave

What author Robert Harris learned about choosing a pope while writing "Conclave"

More than 130 Catholic cardinals will soon sequester inside the Sistine Chapel to begin the conclave to select the next pope. Robert Harris, author of the 2016 novel "Conclave," joins to discuss.

COLUMN: Pope Francis and human partnership

I am not a Catholic. Yet, I still wait to see what qualities of humanity comes forth from the ancient rituals of selecting a new pope by the conclave of cardinals in Rome beginning May 7.

Choosing a pope: What qualities the cardinals will look for in the conclave

Papabile: How do conclave watchers come up with their lists of the next pope—and should we trust them?

Secure Freedom Minute: A Time of Choosing for Catholics and Freedom

It is a time of choosing for the Roman Catholic Church. Obviously, its cardinals will be making a choice of a new pope one week from today.  But an extremely powerful webinar yesterday revealed that they face an even more immediate and, arguably, more fraught choice in the meantime. The cardinals must decide whether the Church will stand with freedom, Judeo-Christian civilization and, yes, Jesus Christ. Or submit to a Chinese Communist dictator,…