There are 117 cardinals under age 80 who are eligible to elect the next pope. Of them, 115 will gather in Vatican City for conclave ----- Cardinal Julius Darmaatmadja of Indonesia is in poor health, and, on March 4th, Britain's Cardinal Keith O'Brien resigned as an archbishop amid allegations of sexual misconduct and said he would not attend.
The conclave, or "secret meeting," will elect the 266th leader of the Catholic Church's 1.2 billion members worldwide. A papal candidate need only be a male baptized Roman Catholic of at least 18 years of age, though traditionally the pontiff comes from among the Sacred College of Cardinals.
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