
The outcome of the conclave process to select the next pope is “totally unpredictable,” a Vatican expert has said, adding that the current group of cardinals has the potential to produce a “really interesting” candidate.
The timely release of the 2024 film Conclave has likely sparked the public’s interest in the centuries-old process, UK theologian Professor Anna Rowland added, as it depicted events which dramatise the process soon to unfold in the Vatican.