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When white smoke billows from the Sistine Chapel and the words “Habemus Papam” (We have a pope) echo across St Peter’s Square, the Catholic Church gets its new leader. But even before he steps onto the balcony, one crucial decision is already made: his name. Choosing a new name is the pope’s first public act….
The largest and most geographically diverse conclave in history was due to resume on Thursday, with Roman Catholic cardinals returning to the Sistine Chapel to try to settle a wide-open papal election. The red-hatted “princes of the Church” started the heavily ritualised process of choosing a new leader for the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics on…