The Catholic Church’s cardinals have converged in Rome for a slate of official events that started Saturday when Pope Francis elevated 20 new churchmen to their exclusive club.
” to retirement in the event that his health makes it impossible for him to run the church. But he said he had not yet reached that point.
In earlier eras of the church, it would have been expected that Francis would continue to serve until his death. But the stunning 2013 resignation of Pope Benedict XVI has created an alternative for modern popes.Whenever Francis leaves the job, there are several crucial questions facing cardinals who will pick his replacement. One is whether they’ll seek a successor who shares Francis’s vision of a more inclusive church.
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