Vatican Electoral Reform

Pope changes rules for papal elections"Pope Benedict XVI has changed the rules for electing a new pope, returning to the traditional requirement that two-thirds of the cardinals in the conclave agree on a new...

pluto: A Celestial Second Opinion

After Pluto got dissed into nonplanethood, lawmakers from Pluto's discoverer's home county are fighting back!"Seven months after a conclave of scientists downgraded the distant heavenly body to a "dwarf planet," a state representative in New Mexico aims to give the snubbed...

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