title: Selecting the Pope: Uncovering the Mysteries of Papal Elections
author:  Greg Tobin 
description: As Pope John Paul II celebrates his Silver Jubilee this year (making his tenure the third longest in papal history), his apparently failing health has been a concern to many. Speculation abounds about who will succeed him, and when. In Selecting the Pope: Uncovering the Mysteries of Papal Elections, Greg Tobin describes the labyrinthine process of choosing a successor, and even gives some odds for various contenders. The book's second half outlines the complex rules for a papal election and some of the challenges that will face the new pope. <BR>Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  CATHOLIC WEEKLY
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  Peter Stanford  
  interviews Mike Brearley
  Cricket, psychotherapy, faith
  Joanna Moorhead  
  The women who have 
  lost patience with Francis  
  Isabelle Grey  
  William Nicholson’s 
  portrait of a marriage
  Tom Holland  
  Is cancel culture the 
  new Pelagian heresy? 
  
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  ould the former American Vice President Joe 
  Biden have been nominated as the 
  Democratic candidate for November’s 
  election for the next President of the United 
  States if he had promised to make unyielding 
  opposition to abortion his number one priority? The 
  answer is obviously no. Yet the United States 
  Conference of Catholic Bishops insists that this is the 
  only option for any Catholic seeking public office. Mr 
  Biden has been criticised within the Catholic 
  community in the US – vitriolically by supporters of 
  Donal