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Article: The coming conclave: how the next pope will be chosen.(papal elections)
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- Commonweal
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- January 16, 2004
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Somehow, talking about conclaves feels unseemly--even ghoulish--while John Paul II suffers so visibly. Still, we must talk about conclaves and what comes next, just as we should have those unsettling conversations about health-care proxies and wills. This conversation leads to and touches on the biggest ecclesiological issues of our time: the collegiality of bishops; the authority of the papacy and the bishops' role in the magisterium; and the shared governance and decision making of all the baptized. The great unfinished business of Vatican II will surely dominate the conclave that will follow one of the most centralizing papacies in church history.
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