What happens inside a conclave? Everything you need to know.

Welcome to America magazine’s Conclave Podcast. Our editors are on the ground in Rome covering the conclave to elect the next pope.

In today’s episode from Rome, the team discusses:

• Final preparations for the conclave, including additional meetings for the cardinals
• President Trump’s A.I. pope image
• Covering the conclave for secular media, with NPR’s Scott Detrow
• The quirky procedures and protocols of the conclave, with Religion News Service’s Thomas Reese, S.J.

This episode features:

• Ashley McKinless, executive editor and co-host of America’s “Jesuitical” podcast
• Zac Davis, director of digital strategy and co-host of America’s “Jesuitical” podcast

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Links from the show:

• Conclave: Everything you need to know about electing a new pope
• ‘God is not mocked’: US Catholic leaders criticize Trump’s AI pope meme
• The conclave is a referendum on synodality
• Interview: Cardinal Müller on if Pope Francis was a heretic and what he wants in the next pope
• The pope is not the point