ope Francis’s slow, ongoing recovery after his five-week hospitalization makes for a scenario full of uncertainties about the governance of the Vatican and the Catholic Church. It is indeed a complex picture, as Austen Ivereigh writes in the April issue of Commonweal. It’s also a test for the institutional Church in an age of crisis of institutions, especially institutions of government.
One easily targetable Church institution is the papal conclave.
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