| By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | On Monday, Pope Francis died at age 88. As Christopher Bellitto explains in Made by History, his passing will lead to an exceptionally rare event: a papal conclave. For only the 16th time since 1788, the College of Cardinals will meet to choose a new pope—by contrast, there have been 60 U.S. presidential elections in the same time period. The cardinals will be locked in and pledged to secrecy, which in the past has made it hard to ascertain what happened behind closed doors, even years later. That combination of rarity and scarcity, Bellitto details, leaves us with one lesson from history: to expect the unexpected from the conclave. While observers will spend the days leading up to it furiously speculating about who will end up pope, the actual choice likely won't be on the list. | |
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| | | |  | Pope Francis Dies at 88 | The reform-minded Roman Catholic leader guided the church through an era of crisis. |
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|  | The Powerful Legacy of the First Latin American Pope | Francis, who died on Easter Monday, transformed the Catholic Church. He will be a tough act to follow, writes Omar G. Encarnación. |
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|  | The Pope Who Paved the Way for Francis' Encyclical on Climate | He wrote the other encyclical you need to know about |
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|  | See Every Pope Who's Ever Been on the Cover of TIME | Francis is the latest in a long tradition |
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|  | How Foreign Aid Can Benefit Both the U.S. and the World | Food for Peace exemplifies the value of internationalism and humanitarian endeavors in American foreign policy. |
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| | This week in 1981: Diana and Charles |  | The April 20, 1981, cover of TIME |
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| "The Prince often sounds like a football coach (as when he makes one of his frequent appearances on behalf of British trade), or like a referee who is not used to getting his shirt dirty. 'See if you can sort things out,' he told a group of wrangling police and black demonstrators. 'You cannot go around like this.' | Such statements may lack any hard political sense, but they do not want for a certain lofty finesse. Charles has it in spades. His courtship of Lady Diana was a model of decorum and broken field running. The pair had been seeing each other 'on and off,' according to a source close to the palace, ever since they were re-introduced in 1977. They met at a pheasant shoot on the grounds of Althrop." |
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| | This week in 2005: Ann Coulter |  | The Apr. 25, 2005, cover of TIME |
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| "Coulter epitomizes the way politics is now discussed on the airwaves, where opinions must come violently fast and cause as much friction as possible. No one, right or left, delivers the required apothegmatic commentary on the world with as much glee or effectiveness as Coulter… | I went to church with Coulter–Redeemer Presbyterian, an evangelical congregation in Manhattan. The actor Ron Silver had also tagged along–Coulter brings lots of people to church, including, at one time, an ex who is Muslim. Pastor Timothy Keller spoke of the importance of allowing one's heart to be 'melted by the sense of God's grace because of what he did on the cross for you.' After he finished, I asked Coulter whether she had managed to convert her Muslim boyfriend. 'No,' she answered, her heart apparently not melted: 'I was just happy he wasn't killing anyone.' With that, she threw her head back and laughed." |
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| This week in 2015: Black Lives Matter |  | The April 20, 2015, cover of TIME |
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| "What happened across the fence from that video camera was the thing in its ugliest form: a man running away, an officer in no apparent danger, an unrestrained use of force. After the man was down, the officer appeared to place something–perhaps the officer's Taser–beside the dying body. When the video surfaced three days after the April 4 killing, Slager was arrested and charged with murder, a crime punishable in South Carolina by life in prison or the death penalty. | 'Where would we be without that video?' attorney Justin Bamberg wondered on behalf of Scott's family. The answer to that question is important. Before the video emerged, the killing of Walter Scott had occupied the same contested territory in which hundreds of other cases have languished and festered–famous cases, like the killings of Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and other cases that barely register in the police blotter." |
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