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The College of Cardinals celebrated a "Pro eligendo Pontifice" Mass, or the Mass for the election of a new pope, in St. Peter's Basilica on March 12, 2013 before entering the Sistine Chapel for the papal conclave. (Photo by Jeffrey Bruno/CNA) Pope Francis’s recent announcement that he will create 21 new cardinals on August 27, 16 of whom would vote in a conclave held after that date, set off the usual flurry of speculations about the shape of the next papal election. Much of