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🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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As the cardinals of the coming conclave prepare, our correspondent considers what will guide them. Which of the church’s challenges will the next pope be elected to address? In Mexico the discovery of a ranch littered with clothing adds disturbing evidence to a torrent of mysterious disappearances (9:24). And the wild goings-on at cinema screenings of “A Minecraft Movie” (15:55).
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1:01.0 | For nearly 20 years, there's been a wave of disappearances in Mexico, but the discovery of a site strewn with shoes and bones is a shock even to a country accustomed to |
1:06.5 | mysterious vanishings. And cinema operators would, in general, like to see more of the teenage visitors who would have recently been drifting away. |
1:16.6 | What they don't want to see is what's happening at showings of the new Minecraft movie. |
1:21.6 | A bunch of kids absolutely going berserk. First up, though. |
1:37.3 | For the first time in 12 years, |
1:45.0 | the Roman Catholic Church is without a leader, |
1:48.0 | following the death of Pope Francis. |
1:52.0 | In Rome, bells told and mourners prayed. |
1:59.0 | Within the Vatican itself, there will be sorrow mingled with anticipation. |
2:05.6 | John Hooper is our Italy and Vatican correspondent. |
2:08.6 | Roman Catholics from many parts of the world, particularly perhaps from Latin America, |
2:16.6 | will be hastening to Rome with a view to attending the funeral. |
2:22.3 | And the members of his College of Cardinals, his body of advisers, they too will be hastening to Rome. |
2:31.3 | Those of them under the age of 80 have the task of selecting the new Pope, and that could |
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