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Cardinals enter Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica on March 12, 2013 at the Vatican. RNS photo by Andrea Sabbadini

(RNS7-mar12) Cardinals enter mass at St. Peter’s basilica on March 12, 2013 at the Vatican. Cardinals moved into the Vatican today as the suspense mounts ahead of a secret papal election with no clear frontrunner to steer the Catholic world through troubled waters after Benedict XVI’s historic resignation. For use with RNS-CONCLAVE-ROME, transmitted on March 12, 2013, RNS photo by Andrea Sabbadini.