The Vatican City.
Cardinate traveled from all over the world to the Vatican to prepare the flavor that will choose the successor of Pope Francis.
She gathered at the College of Cardinalisio, headed by Brigadier Cardinal (currently Giovanni Batista, 91, forms the dome of the Catholic Church.
The main playing (equivalent in the Apostolic Chair is directed to government ministries) by the Cardinate. Its careful title is the “Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church”.
Being a title, not a job, many of them are bishops from the diocese from all over the world, while others occupy charges in the Vatican government.
Voters
There are 252 Cardinals, but only children under 80 are entitled to vote in favor of a new back in Conclave. They are the voters who are going well, and at the present time, they number 135 – two of them were emptied due to health problems.
Cardinate has not been set, but it was “created” by the papal decree. The term comes from the Roman era and indicates that the beneficiary is ranked above its characteristics, but it has no vacant.
According to the Vatican criteria, the ink can create the Cardinate among these men “who highlight their doctrine, customs, piety and wisdom in managing affairs.”
Cardinals (also known as the “slope”) in red, which was a symbol of the Roman Senate, the slogan of strength, the prestige and power that represents the blood of Christ.
It also carries a loop, sapphire, as well as the chest cross, employees and Metri.
Cardinals, who suffer from “Samaha”, are the seconds that followed the Pope in the hierarchy of the church and can be responsible in all churches outside Rome.
More austerity
The creation of the Cardinals reflects the political opinions of the door, which usually uses its strength to form a choice behind it.
During Pontificate, Francisco has struggled to appoint more Cardinals from the “parties” in the Catholic world, places previously ignored.
It is also called “church princes” that can be buried in temples.
The second Vatican Council greatly reduced the privileges granted to studies with the highest rank in the church, who used to reserve a full cabin when they were traveling by train and had a throne room at their residence.
Francisco went further and decided in 2023 that the Cardinals could no longer enjoy apartments in the Vatican without paying the rent.
Two years ago, he even reduced his salaries to help reduce the damage caused by the Corona virus in financing the Apostolic Chair.
He refuses to be the Pope if you choose
“If you choose me, then fled to Sicily,” said Cardinal Cardinal Christopal Lopez Romero, four days after the start of the Pope’s choice in the future.
“I have no ambition at all. I could never imagine this role,” he told the newspaper. Messageero.
A strange situation, despite the fact that the 72nd Cardinal -and the ideas are very similar to Francisco ideas are not among the candidates, and more than that because there is discretionary power and there is no general data about who can be the new Pope.
But for this symbolic purple of the dear “parties” in Francisco, Pontificate has no attraction: “Those who want to be thirsty for power.”
AFP
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