00:00After a nine-day mourning period and funeral for Pope Francis, the Catholic Church will convene the next conclave.
00:08Here, the College of Cardinals will gather to elect the church's next head.
00:13Four rounds of voting are held each day until a cardinal secures a two-thirds majority.
00:19But who are the possible contenders to become the next pontiff?
00:24Hungarian Cardinal Peter Erdo, the Archbishop of Budapest, is considered a strong candidate.
00:32He twice led the Council of European Episcopal Conferences,
00:36evidence of his support amongst European Cardinals, the largest voting bloc.
00:44Germany's Reinhard Marx made headlines when he offered to resign as Archbishop
00:49to atone for the German church's deep failures in handling abuse.
00:53Pope Francis rejected the resignation and told him to stay.
00:59But Conservatives remain skeptical of him.
01:07Mark Olet of Canada led the Vatican's influential bishop's office for over a decade,
01:13overseeing the vetting of Episcopal candidates worldwide.
01:17He's seen as more conservative than Pope Francis.
01:25Italian Cardinal Pietro Parlan, Pope Francis' Secretary of State since 2015,
01:31is widely seen as a leading contender, given his senior role in the Vatican hierarchy.
01:37As a former ambassador to Venezuela, Parlan knows the Latin American church well.
01:43An American pope has long been seen as unlikely, given the U.S.'s geopolitical power.
01:51But Chicago-born Robert Prevost could break that taboo.
01:55He's the current prefect of the Vatican's dicastery for bishops,
02:01in charge of vetting nominations from around the world.
02:07Ghanaian Robert Serra was long considered to have the best chance of becoming the first African pope.
02:13Favored by Conservatives, Serra represents a return to the style of John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
02:23Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn was a student of Pope Benedict's and on paper has the intellectual credentials to appeal to Conservatives.
02:32But he has drawn criticism from within the Vatican for challenging its past inaction against high-ranking abusers.
02:41Filipino Luis Tagli would appear to be Pope Francis' pick for the first Asian pontiff.
02:53Francis brought him to Rome to lead the church's missionary office, serving much of Asia and Africa.
03:04As the conclave approaches, the world waits to see who will lead the Catholic Church into its next chapter.
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03:14by the lasting of his body and the result of his life's life.
03:15So not to come back to the kingdom of God, but to be continued.
03:17So not to come back to the kingdom of God's throne!
03:19The beginning of the kingdom of God is the last episode of the northern chapter.
03:21The end of the kingdom of God, even though there can be a true mysticism.
03:24The world waits to be the only one who remembers the kingdom of God.
03:26A second time in the kingdom of God, for which it is a tomb of God, for the kingdom of God, for the kingdom of God.
03:28The end of the kingdom of God is the highest and of the kingdom of God.
03:30The second time they are the kingdom of God.
03:32The Lord is the most important, the kingdom of God.
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