A ‘sede vacante’ lexicon: Know your congregations from your conclaves
The Church has a lot of lingo. Here's what people are talking about.
As cardinals from around the world gather in Rome, and with global eyes now fixed on the Vatican, the Church has entered a period of papal interregnum.
The loss of a pope, and the wait for a new one, is a dramatic moment, and can be even a traumatic one — but it is also inevitable, each time a new pope is elected.
And the Church has de…