In the Sistine Chapel of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican, the Conclave will begin on Wednesdaywhere the Cardinals with the right to elections will choose 267. The Pope of the Catholic Church. The beginning of the Conclave General Congregation of the Cardinals summoned the 16th day after the death of Pope Francis of 21 April, TASR reports.
Any baptized Catholic can become the Pope, but it is practically always someone from the Cardinal Corps. Any cardinal who was less than 80 years old at the time of the death of the previous Pope can vote. A two -thirds majority of votes is needed to select.
The Vatican has officially confirmed that For the election of the new Pope, for health reasons, two out of 135 cardinals will not participate. Therefore, 89 votes are needed to choose a new pontificle. The process of the election will be led by the oldest cardinal Pietro Parolin from Italy, who served as a state secretary during František’s pontificate.
Of the 135 Cardinals, 108 of them appointed the late Pope Francis. Of Europe, there are 53, 20 from North America, 17 from South America, 18 from Africa, 23 of Asia and four of Oceania, the conclave will be the same schedule as in 2013.
Before the very beginning on Wednesday at 10.00 HV Basilica of Sts. Peter will serve the Holy Mass for the election of the Pope (Pro Eligendo Romano Pontifice), which will be chaired by Cardinal Giovanni Battista RE, Dean of the Cardinal College. Conclave will officially start at 4.30 pm with a prayer in the Pauline Chapel. Before entering the nearby Sistine Chapel, the Cardinals will still pray to all the saints, and after singing the traditional Gregorian Veni Creator Spiritus anthem, they will pass the festive oath and take the first vote.
Each Cardinal-Voler, among other things, undertakes to maintain complete confidentiality about everything related to the choice of the Pope, and not to support any attempts to external interventions in the election. After the oath of all the cardinals present, the papal ceremony shall order all persons except the Cardinals and the Conclave participants to leave the premises. Traditionally, it stands at the door of the Sistine Chapel and calls: “Extra omnes!” (Lat. All out!)
The election negotiations are exclusively in the Sistine Chapel, as Pope John Pavol II ordered in the Kostiite Dominici Gregis. The aim is to protect the choice from external influences and to ensure the independence of the judgment of each Cardinal-invitation. In the past, the cardinals were not allowed to leave the Sistine Chapel throughout the election process, today they are accommodated in the House of St. Marta.
The secret ballot may last for several days, but the two previous Conclave in 2005 and 2013 lasted only two days. The only means of communication of cardinals with the outside world during the conclave is a stove in which they burn ballots with added chemicals to tell the world by the color of the world whether the choice is successful or unsuccessful.
In an unsuccessful choice, potassium chloristan, anthracene and sulfur are added to the ballot, creating black smoke. If a new pontifical is chosen, they are mixed with potassium chlorec, lactose and chloroform resin, which will color the smoke white.
The first day the cardinals will vote in only one round. In the following days, the results will announce in the morning and afternoon after every two rounds of the election. Once the choice is successful, the Dean of the College on behalf of all cardinals-elements will ask the elected candidate to agree to the takeover of the Office with the words: “Do you agree with your canonical election as the highest high priest?” In the case of a positive answer, he further asks, “What name do you want to use?”
The notary then gives a document about the choice of the choice and writes the chosen name. From now on, the elected candidate is acquired by the full and highest authority over the Catholic Church and the Conclave is considered to be completed. The Cardinal-Protodiakon will then notify the believers of the choice and name of the new Pope with the famous sentence: “I declare your great joy, we have a pope!” (Lat. I announce to you great joy: We have the Pope!).
