Conclave: Cardinate voters received a positive file for conservatives

When the Cardinals enter the Sistin Church on Wednesday (7), at the beginning of the range, the election of a new back, will be isolated from the world.

But this does not prevent people from trying to influence the 133 clerics who will choose the successor of the late Pope Francis.

Voters They are allowed to receive written materials, and in the days before the flavor, he received a book on his colleagues of the Cardinis – a book that contains a clear message.

due “Cardinate College Report”The report provides profiles that include about 40 papal candidates, including an analysis of their sites on topics such as the blessings of sex, Diaconis coordination, and church teachings on contraceptives.

Sub -text: The choice of the Pope who will lead the church in a different direction from Pope Francis – whose progressive reforms raised some conservatives.

S. Cardinal College report is available for free online, But it was also produced in coordinating a large book.

Retired Cardinal said, not qualified to participate in Conclave, CNN Which receives a printed version.

The project led two Catholic journalists, Edward Benin from the United Kingdom and Dyan Montagna from the United States – whose works appear on traditional and conservative Catholic news sites.

Reuters said that our montage handed the book to the Cardinals who enter and leave the pre -competition meetings.

The report’s authors say they produced the supplier to help the Cardinals “know each other better” and that it was assembled by “an international and independent team of journalists and Catholic researchers.”

The document precedes the flavor in which the Cardinate is – A different group of 71 countries, many of which were appointed by Francisco in the past decade They do not know each other well and use badges during meetings.

Try to influence the flavor

Interrogate CNN If the Cardinals will be able to bring the report to Conclave, a Vatican spokesman answered, “What they take depends on them.”

But lawyers in the church said CNN The report is far from honesty and is an attempt to influence the flavor towards Francisco fighting.

For example, the report describes the Cardinal Mario Grish, the Maltese bishop responsible for overseeing an important reform process in the Roman Catholic Church, as “controversial”, while praising American Cardinal Raymond Burke, prominent critic of Francisco.

The report was assembled in conjunction with the Sofia Institute Press, a traditional publisher in New Hampshire, and the Cardinal Publishing, France Magazine.

Press Press publishes the anti -Francisco magazine “Crisis Magazine” magazine, and in 2019, it published the book “Cross”, which stipulates that in the nineteenth century, a group of “modernists and Marxists” set a plan to sabotage the Catholic Church inside.

Meanwhile, Cardinals regularly publishes articles on promoting conservative cruise.

Cardinian College Report is trying on the Internet to avoid bias, saying: “Our approach to the facts depends and we strive to be neutral, and we present a precise image as possible the type of man who can replace the hunter once” – A reference to the first Pope, Saint Peter.

The authors also state that there are historical precedents of the initiative, pointing to the times when “diplomats and other confidence writers collected more detailed and reliable autonomous biographies and distributed them to the stakeholders.”

And he said CNN The report “was conceived and established as a service for the members of the Holy College to help them know each other, in light of the following standards and beyond. Of course, we seek to make the site and the booklet that accompanies it within the reach of the largest possible number of Cardinals.”

The Church Law tries to prevent intervention

Dawn Eden Goldstein, Washington -based Catholic Catholic Authority, skeptical.

“Even if they are pressing the Cardinal on the Francis Road, this is still prohibited under the law of the Church,”

CNN told.

In his rules regarding the election of the Popes, John Paul II, under the penalty of expulsion, banned “all forms of interference and” possible “opposition to the political authorities, including any” individual or group “that can try to influence the election of the Pope.

The idea behind Trial It is to prevent external effects.

In the past, European kings retained the power of veto in the papal elections, being the last one to practice in 1903.

But Conclave 2025 was a target of different types of attempts to influence them.

Survivors of sexual assault on a book book a database to verify the history of the Cardinals in addressing the problem, while social networks were full of controversial content – from the videos created by Cardinal AI to celebrate the Sistine chapel Even US President Donald Trump, who publishes an artificial image of himself Kababa.

The potential reporters of the report

Catholic conservative groups are well compatible are among the potential influencers.

The Sophia Press Institute publishes books in partnership with the Eternal Words Network (EWTN), the world’s largest religious broadcaster who provides space for Francisco critics.

The Napa Institute, a conservative Catholic group, was present in Rome in preparing for joining, as well as the Babylonian Foundation, a group of Catholic philanthropists.

“This room can be raised a billion to help the Church. As long as we have the right Pope,” the supporter of the unknown papacy for the London teams chanted.

Some members of these groups also support Trump.

Tim Busach, a lawyer and joint supporter of Napa, described the “Trump government as” the most Christian he seen ever. ” Although Busch refused to claim that he was “hostile to Francisco”, he said that the head of the super -province’s bishops Carlo Maria Vigano “made us a great service” by publishing the 2018 file requesting the resignation of the late Pope.

Figano was expelled last year through the division.

Court Martins, professor of the ecclesiastical law at the American Catholic University, explained that the legislation of the church seeks to “protect the Cardinate from all kinds of influence and external interference.” The Red Hat report, an American group, was cited in 2018, looking for more than a million dollars to collect files about the candidates, in an attempt to avoid the repetition of the range that was elected by Francisco.

Martens stated that initiatives such as the Cardinal Report and the Red Hat report “not only want to provide objective information, but also distorted information, and thus seek to influence the result of Conclave.”

He added:

“According to the rules of St. John Paul II, this is completely prohibited.”

At the same time, the Cardinals are not easily influential.

The Cardinal Oswald Grassyas, retired head of Bombam, said, CNN It is a warning from his colleagues of the Cardinate about “wrong news” on social networks.

He said he received the book on the Cardinate, but he did not read it. “It is a well -produced folder, but I hope it is needed,” he added.