1. a) What is the population of the world?
b) What percent of the world's population is Catholic?
c) What are the world's 4 largest religions and their numbers?

2. What is a papal conclave?

3. a) How many cardinals are currently in the Catholic church?
b) Why don't all cardinals have a vote in the election of a new pope?

4. a) Where is the conclave held?
b) Why are the cardinals kept in isolation during the conclave?
c) How many votes does it take for one of the cardinals to be elected as the new pope?

5. How does a papal conclave begin?

6. How do the cardinals in the conclave announce to the world the results of each vote?

7. What happens after the cardinals elect a pope?