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Adopt-A-Cardinal: An Interactive Way For Faithful To Join Conclave

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VATICAN CITY - The cardinals are meeting at the Vatican this week to lay the groundwork for the conclave to elect a new pope, after this month's suprise resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.

There is much on their agenda: determining Catholicism's most pressing challenges, looking for the right man for the papal job, clarifying the precise rules for voting inside the secret meeting in the Sistine Chapel.

To help them on their spiritual quest, there is: Adopt-a-Cardinal.

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Yes, that's right: Adopt-a-Cardinal is a website where you can register your name and email address in order to be randomly assigned a scarlet-clad "prince of the Church" to pray for before and during the conclave, expected to start next week.

By Tuesday afternoon, Rome time, there were 263,712 people who had already adopted a cardinal. Worldcrunch was assigned Cardinal Godfried Daneels from Belgium -- we’ll be thinking of you during the coming weeks, Your Eminence!

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The site is in six languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Polish, and Italian and says it aims to let Catholics "support our shepherds with the strength of our faith and let us help them carry the burden of these days (Gal. 6,2)."

The site was created by German movement Jugend 2000 (Youth 2000), formed in 1990 after Pope John Paul II called on young people at the World Youth Day in 1989 to become the protagonists of the evangelization.

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