The Vatican City (AP)-With all the joy, drama and seriousness that the Catholic Church can mobilize, 133 Cardinals began rituals for centuries to elect a successor to Pope Francis, and celebrate the morning in the morning on Wednesday before they open the most geographical diverse in the history of faith of 2000 years.
The head of the Cardinan College, Cardinal Giovanni Batista Rey, presided over the service, urged voters to allocate all personal interests and find the Pope who gives unity. He said that the world today needs a leader who can awaken the conscience.
From the altar of Saint Baysa Peter, they were so that they could agree to the Pope that our time is our needs, “as he presented a last group of march orders before entering the Cardinan Church of Sistine later on Wednesday to start the secret vote.
Of the 70 countries, the Cardinals are isolated from the outside world, and their mobile phones and air waves surrendered around the Vatican to prevent all communications until they find a new leader of the church, which is valued at 1.4 billion members.
Francis was 108 of 133 “Church princes”, and he chose many priests in his image from distant countries such as Mongolia, Sweden and Tonga, which had not had Cardinal before.
His decision to exceed the usual limit of 120 Cardinal voters and their younger inclusion from the “global south” – often marginalized countries with low economic influence – have injected an extraordinary degree of uncertainty in a process always full of ambiguity and suspense, with smoke signals that tell the world if the Pope has been elected or not.
Many Cardinals did not meet each other until last week and promised that they need more time to get to know each other, raising questions about the period that one man may take to secure the majority of two -thirds, or 89 votes, necessary to become Pope 267.
“Wait and see, little patience, wait and see,” said Cardinal Mario Zanari, the Vatican ambassador to Syria when he arrived for the last day of the pre -discussion.
One last block, then “everything”
Cardinals began today by participating in the Mass in the Church of St. Peter, which was attended by Vatican officials and the public. The dean of the 91 -year -old college, for the sake of the Cardinals, prayed to find wisdom, advice and understanding to elect a new shepherd who deserves.
Wearing bright red clothes, the Cardinals were treated in the Central Corridor of Basilica while the Choir of the boys sang in the Sistine Church. They took their seats around the main altar, which is located above the traditional burial of Saint Peter, is considered the first Pope.
Ri was headed at the funeral of Francis, where she presented a heart sermon indicating the first Pope in Latin America in the history and reform that the papacy supervised for 12 years.
At 4:30 pm (1430 GMT; 10:30 am EST) the Cardinacle is officially running in the Cistin Wall Church, chanting the “Litany of the Saints” and the Latin chant “Creator of Al -Waridi”, and they call the saints and the Holy Spirit to help them choose the Pope.
Once they are, they pledge to maintain confidentiality about what is about to be transported and not allow “any interference, opposition, or any other form of intervention” from strangers to influence their vote.
He stands in front of Michael Anglo’s vision of the sky and hell in the “last referee”, puts all Cardinal his hand on the Bible and divides to implement this duty.
The splendor of the church’s murals, and Michelangelo in particular, aims to remind the Cardinals of the heavy responsibility they bear. In his results regulations, St. John Paul II wrote that in the Sistine Church, “Everything leads to awareness of the existence of God, who will be judged in every person every day.”
After the Cardinacle performs the right, the cardinal offers a large meditation. The master of the papal liturgy celebrations, bishops, Diego Ravili,“Omnes Extra,”Latin for “All out”. Any person who is not qualified to vote, then leaves and closes the doors of the church, allowing work.
Cardinals do not have a preliminary vote on Wednesday, but they usually do so. Assuming that no winner was found, the Vatican said that black smoke is expected to be from Sistin chapel chimneys at approximately 7 pm
Cardinals retire at night and return Thursday morning. They can hold the voting obedience in the morning and two in the afternoon until the winner is found.
While the Cardinals said this week they expect a short round, it is likely that it takes at least a few rounds of voting. In the last century, it took between three and eight ballot cards to find the Pope. John Paul I – the Pope who ruled for 33 days in 1978 – was elected in the third ballot. His successor, John Paul II, needed eight. Francis was elected fifth in 2013.
Pressing in front of the side
While the Cardinate is supposed to resist any “secular” effects in their choice, this pressure increases in Rome in the days before the flavor, as the various groups of the Cardinate mentioned what the ordinary Catholics want in a leader.
Catholic youth formulated an open speech that the Cardinals state that there is no church without young people, women and secularists. The conservative Catholic media has slipped copying the Cardinals from a brilliant book containing their assessments of the competitors. Survivors warned of sexual assault on the Cardino clerics that they would get responsibility if they fail to find a leader who will be cut off from contracts of abuse and cover -up.
The women’s coordination defenders were sending pink smoke signals on the Vatican to demand that women be priests, so that they could also vote in one of the provinces.
Lesit Herrera, a 54 -year -old tourist from the Dominican Republic, was deeply transferred to find herself by chance in Rome with the start of Conclave. On Wednesday morning, I decided to take the Spanish steps, the Trevi fountain, and instead in the Saint Peter Square.
She said: “I pray for the Holy Spirit for the young Pope who will stay with us for a long time.” “I do not believe in the domain policy, I just feel that the Holy Spirit is here and this is all we need to know.”
The challenges facing the new Pope
There are any number of challenges facing a new door and installing them on the Cardinals, above all, whether it will continue and unify the gradual legacy of Francis in promoting women, accepting LGBTQ+, the environment and migrants, or its retreat to try to unify a church that has become more attractive during Pontifortics. The sexual assault scandal on the clergy on the pre -class conversations.
Since Francis chose 80 % of the voters, it is likely that continuity will continue, but the form that it may take is inconceivable and that determining the first position represents a challenge.
But some names continue to appear on the “Papabile” lists, or the Cardinals who have the characteristics to be the Pope.
– Cardinal Petro Parolin, 70, is the pioneering Italian, by nature. Foreign Minister Francis, Vatican No. 2, was known to all Cardinal.
The Filipino Cardinal Luis Talal, 67, is the first candidate to be the first Asian door for history. He had a prominent function in the same way, as he headed the Vatican Office in the Vatican responsible for the Catholic Church in most of the developing world.
Hungarian Cardinal Peter Erdo, 72, Bishop Budapest, is a pioneering candidate representing the most conservative pavilion of the church.