As cardinals gather to elect a new pope, external influences and controversies shape the conclave. Allegations against ...

As the world waited this week to see who would be elected the next pope, the major event also took social media by storm ... College of Cardinals met at the Vatican to vote through secret ballot ...

Hype has been building on social media around the Catholic Church’s ... but also secrecy and mystery” cannily nurtured by the Vatican, agreed Stephanie Laporte, founder of digital strategy ...

The difference between then and now is already very evident, as cardinals have begun sharing updates about their movements in the Vatican on social media ... t seek outside influence to impact ...

More than 1.3 million tweets have been published on X about the conclave, according to monitoring platform Visibrain, while TikTok videos on the topic have been viewed over 363 million times ...

Hype has been building on social ... of the pope's influence on hundreds of millions, even billions of people, whether it's in his stance on contraception or the environment," Laporte said. Conclave ...