Conclave

  • Secret dinners and deal-making behind Pope Leo’s election

    Two new books detail how private dinners, diplomatic alliances and backroom conversations among cardinals shaped the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, revealing the conclave’s hidden power dynamics in unprecedented detail.

    Secret dinners and deal-making behind Pope Leo’s election

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