Among the 133 cardinal electors who will gather in the Sistine chapel on May 7 will be five from among the leaders of the 23 Eastern Churches sui iuris who, together with the Latin Church, form the global Catholic Church in communion with the pope.
‘The Church is not a substitute of the UN’: Cardinal Baselios Cleemis
The head of the Syro-Malankara Church discusses the nature of the global Church, the conclave, and why Christianity is always a 'minority community'