From 10 (Roman time), the “began”Misa for-selecting Pope“, In which all the Cardinals are, not only the 133 who are going to vote in the conclave. The doors of the Sistine Chapel will close at 16.30 in Italy.
The ceremony hosts in the Basilica of San Pedro and is chaired by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the Cardenalicio College.
A few hours after the beginning of a divided conclave, with the greatest number of cardinals and the most international and global in history, at the Mass Time ”, for the good of the Church and humanity.
In a solemn mass marked by beautiful choirs in which the 133 voters cardinals and another one hundred non -electors -80 -year -old women participated, Cardinal Re, who will not be able to enter the Sistine Chapel -where this afternoon the most fascinating secret ‘cum cum choice of the world will begin this afternoon -drew the profile that Francisco’s successor should have.
“We are here to invoke the help of the Holy Spirit, to implore its light and strength, so that the Pope is chosen that the Church and humanity need at this time in history so difficult, complex and tormented,” he said at the beginning of his sermon.
The 133 cardinals who will participate in the election of the next Pope will enter the Sistine Chapel at 16.30 in Rome -11.30 of Argentina- and, once the doors are closed, there will be no news until the chimney comes out of smoking white smoking, which implies that it has already been chosen to Francisco’s successor.
A minutes after the Mass before the start of the conclave begins in which the successor Pope will be chosen, the faithful approach the Plaza de San Pedro, while the Vatican deployed a safety operation with metal detector. Today afternoon there will be smoke.
All who participate in the conclave, cardinals and laity, swore absolute secretism About the intimacy of the choice of Pope Francis’s successor. They may go to lunch or dinner, but they will not be able to make statements to the press, as described by journalist Ignacio Damonte, from the LN+ mobile in Rome.
-On the eve of the conclave in which the successor of Pope Francis will be defined, the Holy See issued a statement in which the cardinals expressed their “concern about the populations that remain victims of conflicts.” “We make a sense of calling all the parties involved to reach a permanent fire as soon as possible and negotiate, without previous conditions and without further delay, peace long desired by the populations involved and throughout the world,” they said.
Once all Cardinals They have deposited their ballots in the urn, the first scruty shakes the urn several times to shuffle the ballots and, immediately afterwards, the last scrutador proceeds to count of the ballots visibly by visibly one by one of the urn and depositing them in another empty container. If the number of Papelets It does not correspond to the number of voters, all must be burned and immediately proceed to a second vote. If, on the contrary, it does coincide with the number of voters, proceed to count.
The 133 cardinals of the next conclave are in Rome to choose the successor of Pope Francis and define the future of the Church of 1400 million Catholics.
The so -called “Princes of the Church” will be locked from Wednesday in the Sistine Chapel to choose the new Pontiff in An uncertain vote and without clear favorites.
By Elisabetta Piqué
In an electrifying climate and a scenario still full of unknowns on the horizon, the conclave will begin tomorrow to succeed Pope Francis. Although under some cardinals that concluded on Tuesday the general congregations confessed that A candidate “obvious” had not emerged from the meetingsthe latest interventions made it clear that while it is impossible for someone to be elected that is a “photocopy” of Francisco, Many want the 267 pontiff in the history of the Catholic Church to be a shepherd with its same priorities.
By Elisabetta Piqué
Upon entering the general congregations, the pre-Cóclave meetings, the cardinals swore in reserve everything that happened in there. While some interpreted this oath as they should not speak with the press, many others, on the other hand, did grant interviews, with the condition of talking about other issues not inherent to those discussions at closed doors.
