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  • Once again the Eternal City is the anxious setting for election of a new Pope, the 266th in history. On Thursday the last cardinal who can vote in the approaching Conclave arrived for what is, for the Roman Catholic Church, an epocal event - epocal but also traumatic because the resignation of Benedict XIV was completely unexpected. Hovering like a ghost over the proceedings, say Vaticanologists, is the scandal of Vatileaks, with its revelations of infighting and financial scandal within the Vatican.