Who will be Pope?

In 1994, when I first began my genealogy journey, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints whose family history center I used for my research asked me if I was open to hearing about their ministry.

- Todd Sales Lucero

I told her that yes, of course, I would open to it but nothing in this world would convince me to leave the Roman Catholic faith. That was how adamant I was about my faith. But deep inside I also had a burning and childish desire of someday becoming the Pope! The world is now focused on Vatican City and the impending selection of the replacement for the late Pope Francis in a sacred ceremony called the conclave. Just days ago, it was decided by the powerful cardinals that the next Conclave will be on May 7. So the Vatican will be bustling with tourists and religious in the next few days, and depending on how long or short the process takes place (recent reports say that the 1939 conclave was the shortest papal conclave in the 20th century, the last papal conclave to include all living cardinals, and the first papal conclave to include a cardinal from the Middle East since the Middle Ages; and with the