When they enter the Sistin Church to participate in the election of the new Pope, some Cardinals are already considered “swallowing”, that is, this is, Possible popes For years. Other names do not arise until after the death or abandonment of the Pope.
The flavor, as the process is called, is The last stage of a secret electoral process Which starts for weeks, months, or even years.
All Cardinals, whether they are looking for the position of the Pope or those who have less will, will be subject to the unpredictable dynamic and that make the clips one of the most mysterious elections in the world.
Bishop Pierre Marini, a master’s degree in the 2005 simulation ceremony, gave the beginning of the 2013 pre -election campaign, after a period after the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, when he saw the Cardinals speaking in small groups after saying goodbye to appearing in the Vatican.
He told reporters at the time when explaining the rituals.
Hey One of the main candidates In this range, Cardinal Angelo Scola from Milan for years.
As part of the campaign and increased opportunities, Cardinal launched a network of Christian Motmanman’s dialogue in 2004, known as “Oasis”.
He said: “Sikla is very smart and building his campaign for flavor very carefully.” “He was internationally known by the other Italians,” he added.
Oasis, a gun -based institution that respects his work with the Islamic world, is more than just a campaign vehicle, and has certainly helped Scola to improve his international credentials.
Campaign in practice
All Cardinals may deny the campaigns in the elections on the pretext that they believe that they choose to be guided by the Holy Spirit.
However, the campaign campaigns to win votes are the best way to guide voters or against the Pope’s candidate.
Thus, the ambitious cardinal that often becomes Ponchi participates in the Synod, Vatican meetings, and visiting colleagues regularly and providing lectures showing his wisdom and linguistic skills. The spread of texts regularly is also a strategy.
After the death of the Pope or, in rare cases, the “great voters” arises to promote the candidates in Pre -dish meetings Therefore -it is called public gatherings, where the Cardinals meet to discuss the future of the Church and the research The man who can lead it in the future.
In general, the Cardinals who do not compete with the work of “breeders of kings” to lift votes on unofficial talks on the outskirts of these meetings, during a dinner at their favorite restaurants in Rome and in time periods between voting sessions in Conclave.
When the Cardinals met to the second range in 1978, and after the sudden death of Pope John Paul, Cardinal Franz Quinig in Vienna gathered the German speakers, Polly American John Kroll and also the American Cardinacle, to join Carroll Westle, who can be elected and will become Bob John Paul.
The Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who would become Pope Benedict XVI, was supported by the Cardian in Romanian Korea, responsible for the administration of the Catholic Church. This has increased your chances of electing.
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In the Sistine Church itselfCardinate pray, vote and wait for the election results. It is not allowed to consult inside the church, but they can discuss meal options in staying behind Bachelica, St. Peter, where they are during the range.
The first round of voting, in the afternoon, is similar to Conclave, the basic vote, where votes are spread by a wide number of candidates. Some of the promises of courtesy were launched to tend a friend, before the serious vote began the next day.
OS Cardinals swore the secret, But a report on the Italian magazine Lims after 2005 said that Ratzinger got 47 votes in the first vote, Jorge Bergolio, from Buenos Aires – who became in 2013, Pope Francis – obtained 10 and the rest spread among other names.
Voices began to change in the second part of the vote the next morning, and raised the number of Ratzinger to 65 and Bergoglio to 35. The Italian magazine said that Argentina was supported by many German Croup, America and moderate Latin America.
The third transformation, immediately before lunch, Ratzinger got 72 votes in favor of Ratsinger and Burgulio 40, according to the magazine. In the afternoon of the same day, the German Cardinal secured the situation with 84 votes.
The Bergoglio number decreased in the fourth shift to 26, indicating that some supporters have committed to the movement of Ratziner. “Some seem to have concluded that this is the way the Holy Spirit was moving the elections,” said Cardinal after the vote.
Among the many Roman saying about the popes, there is a person who says: “Whoever enters until the Pope comes out of the Cardinal.”
However, this was not always true.
In 1939, Cardinal Eugenio Bakili entered the favorite candidate. He stood in the election vote in the second vote and won the third to become Pope Pius XII.
