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Cardinals set date for start of papal conclave

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KYW News Radio

Cardinals have set Tuesday as the start date for the conclave to elect the next pope. Leonard Swidler, who teaches religion at Temple, thinks reform is needed now in the Catholic Church, and electing the new leader will be a challenging task. He points out that the cardinals in the conclave were appointed over the years by ultra-conservative popes, “so the chances are that there will be a lot of tugging toward a very conservative side.