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| The Cardinals who will select a Pope: full list | The Cardinals who will select a Pope: full list |
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| Who is choosing the next Pope? Right now over 100 catholic Cardinals are sitting in conclave in Rome arguing over who should succeed Pope Benedict XVI. | Who is choosing the next Pope? Right now over 100 catholic Cardinals are sitting in conclave in Rome arguing over who should succeed Pope Benedict XVI. |
| That's the theme of the Guardian Interactive team's wonderful Pontifficator. And here's where you download the data behind that interactive guide. | That's the theme of the Guardian Interactive team's wonderful Pontifficator. And here's where you download the data behind that interactive guide. |
| Behind the interactive is weeks of work by Guardian journalists including the Datablog's Ami Sedghi and Mona Chalabi in finding the key facts about each cardinal. | Behind the interactive is weeks of work by Guardian journalists including the Datablog's Ami Sedghi and Mona Chalabi in finding the key facts about each cardinal. |
| Andrew Brown - who brought his expertise to bear on the data - explains today how we categorised each cardinal, with all the nuanced problems that brings. | Andrew Brown - who brought his expertise to bear on the data - explains today how we categorised each cardinal, with all the nuanced problems that brings. |
| These categories do not map easily onto the secular world. A Cardinal may be conservative in matters of sexual morality and radical economically. Or he could be ferocious in pursuit of gay people but committed to the protection of migrant rights | These categories do not map easily onto the secular world. A Cardinal may be conservative in matters of sexual morality and radical economically. Or he could be ferocious in pursuit of gay people but committed to the protection of migrant rights |
| So, who are the 115 with the power? | So, who are the 115 with the power? |
| The data shows a group of men (natch) who tend to be older - the average age is 72, although the range goes from mid-50s all the way up to 79 and Cardinals Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa (Chile), Geraldo Majella Agnelo (Brazil) and Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga (Ecuador). | The data shows a group of men (natch) who tend to be older - the average age is 72, although the range goes from mid-50s all the way up to 79 and Cardinals Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa (Chile), Geraldo Majella Agnelo (Brazil) and Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga (Ecuador). |
| And where are they from? The biggest number is from Europe, despite the fact that the Americas have nearly half the world's Catholic population. | And where are they from? The biggest number is from Europe, despite the fact that the Americas have nearly half the world's Catholic population. |
| And if you look at the number proportionately - as a rate per million Catholics in each region, Europe is decidedly better-represented than any other continent. | And if you look at the number proportionately - as a rate per million Catholics in each region, Europe is decidedly better-represented than any other continent. |
| You can see that reflected in this map of Cardinals by location by Datablog reader Anton McConville and his son Jake. He has written about the process of making it here. | You can see that reflected in this map of Cardinals by location by Datablog reader Anton McConville and his son Jake. He has written about the process of making it here. |
| The full data we used is available for download below. What can you do with it? | The full data we used is available for download below. What can you do with it? |
| Data summary | Data summary |
| Cardinals in conclave | Cardinals in conclave |
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