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As Bostonians, we tend to get excited when one of our own neighbors gets to be part of something big — and indignant when the city gets shut out of an opportunity. Today we have a look at the history of Boston’s participation in the papal conclave, which starts tomorrow.

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Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson pleaded guilty Monday to wire fraud and theft from a program receiving federal funds. According to prosecutors, she hired a relative and took $7,000 from that relative’s bonus. Fernandes Anderson has said she plans to resign, but that she wants her district to have a vote in the city’s budget process, scheduled to wrap up by July 1. “It’s kind of difficult right now to give a date,” she said.

Prosecutors agreed to drop four other charges against her, and will recommend a sentence of one year and one day in prison as well as $13,000 in restitution payments — though a federal judge will ultimately decide what her sentence will be. She is due back in court for sentencing on July 29. 

Worcester’s city manager did not renew the terms of the city’s Human Rights Commission chair and vice chair after asking them to pause their work on police accountability and instead work on other issues. Ellen Shemitz and Elizabeth O’Callahan said they don’t know who will lead the body going forward . Last year, a Department of Justice investigation found that police officers in Worcester had used violent excessive force and engaged in sexual misconduct on the job.

A spokesperson for City Manager Eric Batista did not respond to a request for comment Monday. “It feels to me like this is clipping the wings of the Human Rights Commission at a time where the city manager and all of us should be empowering them to do the work that they were doing,” Worcester City Councilor Etel Haxhiaj said.

Nonprofit leaders in Massachusetts are feeling pessimistic: In a MassINC poll of 500 nonprofit leaders and workers, nearly 90% of respondents said believe Massachusetts will be worse off under President Donald Trump. A small minority — 2% of respondents — said they feel the state is better off with Trump in office.

Massachusetts has a significant nonprofit sector: about 500,000 people in the state work for nonprofits, and hundreds of thousands more are volunteers, board members and advisors. And with federal funding either vanishing or increasingly unreliable, 86% of survey respondents said they’re focusing their efforts on donations. “If philanthropic dollars shift to fill the gaps of government funding, that would make the philanthropic landscape that we rely on more competitive,” one respondent said.

People who have been evicted in Massachusetts can now apply to have their court records sealed. Until now those evictions stayed on their records, even for no-fault evictions where, for instance, landlords wanted tenants out so they could sell their home. Those with eviction records can now apply to have their records sealed at Mass.gov.

“An eviction can continue to haunt you many years after that,” Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll said. “Not just if you’re trying to find an apartment, but if you are trying to get credit, if you are trying for a job, it can hang on and be a part and a barrier to what you are trying to do moving forward.” The process will be more complicated for people the courts have ruled were evicted for not paying rent.

No Boston voters in papal conclave

Tomorrow marks the start of the papal conclave at the Vatican, the process through which the Catholic Church’s leaders from all around the globe will eventually elect the next pope. There will be 135 cardinal electors filling out ballots in a sealed-off Sistine Chapel. But none of them will be representing Boston.

As GBH’s Esteban Bustillos reports, the only people who can participate are cardinals under the age of 80. Cardinal Seán Patrick O’Malley, the former leader of the Archdiocese of Boston, turns 81 next month and is therefore ineligible. And the local archdiocese’s current leader, Archbishop Richard Henning, has not reached cardinal status.

O’Malley was part of the conclave that elected Pope Francis in 2013. In 2005, when cardinals chose Benedict XVI, Boston’s archdiocese did not have a formal representative in the chapel — though Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, who had resigned from his role leading the archdiocese three years earlier because of his involvement in the church’s sex abuse cover-ups, did vote.

During the 20th century, Boston’s archbishops were able to vote in four of eight papal conclaves. That number could have been higher if not for slow transatlantic travel: Boston Cardinal William Henry O’Connell tried to make it to Rome but missed the vote not once but twice, according to the Archdiocese official newspaper, the Boston Pilot. In 1914 he missed the final vote by a few hours. In 1922, he rushed to the Vatican to find he had missed the conclave’s end by less than an hour. He used the opportunity to ask the new pope to change the rules and allow non-European cardinals more travel time.

Though O’Malley won’t have a vote, he might still have some sway, said Thomas Groome , a professor of theology at Boston College.

“Cardinal Seán will not be on the periphery of the conversation going on in Rome,” Groome said. “I’m sure he’s well consulted and that his opinion and suggestions will be highly regarded, even though he doesn’t have a formal vote at the conclave.”

For his part, Groome said he’d like to see the age limit reviewed.

“People are living longer,” Groome said. “I think they should push it to 85. If a person’s in good health, why not?”

If you’d like more conclave news, check out this article about Vatican workers who attached a chimney to the Sistine Chapel last week. Let the white smoke billow.