Newsroom continues now with ashleigh banfield. Hi, everybody. Nice to have you with me. Im ashleigh banfield. They have met, they have talked, and they have prayed a lot. And tomorrow they are going to vote, or at least they are going to meet for the purpose of voting, which means tomorrow, theoretically, the 115cardinal electors of the Roman Catholic church could give the world a brand new pope. Could it be Peter Turkson of gha ghana . That would be the first african pope in more than 1,500 years. Or perhaps luis tagle of the philippines, a rising star in the church, but seen by some people as perhaps too young to be pope at just 55 years old. Maybe sean omalley of the United States, boston, to be exact. He is one of two supposedly credible candidates for the First American pope ever. New yorks Timothy Dolan is the other. In fact, the United States has 11 voting cardinals of those 115, which makes us the second biggest block of voters behind italy. And speaking of italy, the cardinals
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Philippine bishops say many voices must be heard in addressing the growing problem of climate change, citing the country's vulnerability to environmental catastrophes after Pope Francis' latest encyclical.