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The world waits as cardinals work to choose the next pope

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By Ruth Sherlock

Published May 8, 2025 at 6:45 AM EDT

The world is watching the Vatican on Thursday as 133 cardinals work to choose which of them will be the next pope.

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Ruth Sherlock

Ruth Sherlock is an International Correspondent with National Public Radio. She's based in Beirut and reports on Syria and other countries around the Middle East. She was previously the United States Editor for the Daily Telegraph, covering the 2016 US election. Before moving to the US in the spring of 2015, she was the Telegraph's Middle East correspondent.

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