VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals sequestered themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for a conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis. Here are some things to know about the election of the 267th pontiff of the Catholic Church, which has 1.4 billion faithful across the world. Why is the conclave […]

The best thing that could happen to the world is for the Cardinals to out-do their previous record of three years to select a new Pope.

Imagine three years without a foreigner telling us what we should think, what we should believe, what we should do, how we should run our lives, how we should vote.

Maybe we will learn how to take back our own lives from the influence of foreign powers.