Habemus of Conclave History; Start on May 7

The Vatican City.

The Cardinals in the Catholic Church decided that on Wednesday, May 7, the vote will begin to choose the successor of Pope Francis.

In a statement, the Vatican told “evangelization and relationship with other religions and the issue of abuse” highlights the most urgent issues in the Catholic Church.

Of the 252 Cardinal in the church, they were called to Rome after the death of Francisco, 224 went to the funeral last Saturday.

Each of them had a sound and voting in choosing the date of flavor, but only 135 – only those under the age of 80 – can reach the Sistine Majestic chapel to choose the new Pope.

All Cardinals will participate on May 7 in a bloc in Bazilica San Pedro. Then, voters will get a secret vote; They will not be able to access the Internet, radio, television or press.

Purple voters celebrate four votes daily (two in the morning and two in the afternoon) until the candidate gets two -thirds of the votes. After three days without appointing a back, voting is suspended for a day of prayer.

The flavor can last for several days, and the “prince of the church”, which was demobilized, will not be able to leave until the expected white smoking precedes We have the Pope.

Although the choice of Pope Gregory X took nearly three years in the thirteenth century (the longest in history), modern differences usually continue in only days.

The delivery that led to the selection of Francisco in 2013, the same time, took the same time, Benedict XVI.

The Vatican has not confirmed how many 135 voters will participate in the flavor.

80 % of them were appointed by Francisco. Many regions in the world come historically by the church and others are unknown.

However, it has the largest mass of voters, with 53 Cardinals, compared to 27 from Asia and Oceania, 21 between South America and Central America, 18 from Africa and 16 from North America.

Italy is the most representative nation, with 19 voters. The United States has 10, Brazil seven and Fifth France.

“Our desire is to find a person like Francisco, who is not the same, but in continuity,” Argentine Angel Sisto Rossi, 66, told the press.

The style and reforms that Francisco promotes criticism among the most conservative sectors, which are now betting on changing more focus on the faith.

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Angelo Besio, Italian Cardinal, convicted of embezzlement and abstraction from his privileges by Pope Francis, abandoned participation in the scope after pressuring him to accept it, according to a local press.

The Cardinal Petro Parolin, the former Vatican Minister of Vatican, presented two documents signed by Francisco that he could not participate, according to the newspaper. tomorrow.

Besio, 76, was considered a vulnerable to his leadership, a mysterious real estate operation in London to justice. The Pope made him surrender and removed his privileges in 2020.

The process of choosing the Pope

• Voters gather behind closed doors in the group’s Sistin Church.
• They vote four times a day until one of the candidates collects two -thirds.
• The sounds say. The Vatican announces with black smoke that there is no agreement yet.
• White smoke indicates Our pope This appears in the Church of San Pedro.

• Francisco was chosen after five rounds that started on March 12, 2013 and ended the next day.
• With Benedict XVI there were four rounds of voting in two days; They started on April 18, 2005.
• John Paul II was appointed Pope on October 16, 1978, after eight rounds of voting in two days.
• Juan Pablo was chosen on August 26, 1978 after four rounds in two days, but he died a month later.