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The cardinal leading the last mass before a conclave to elect a new pope urged his peers Wednesday to choose someone able to protect the Catholic Church’s unity and lead a "difficult and complex" point in history.
Cardinals from five continents held a final mass in St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican before shutting themselves away to choose a new leader for the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.
A total of 133 cardinal electors are set to take part in the conclave, the voting process to pick a successor to Pope Francis, who died last month after a 12-year papacy.
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