The dean of the Cardenalicio College, Giovanni Battista Re, officiated a mass prior to the conclave. In it he called to “maintain the unity of the Church” for the “difficult, complex and convulsive” that will face the future spiritual leader of 1.4 billion Catholics.
The controversy runs because, at some point in the Mass, Giovanni Battista Re wanted luck in Pietro Parolin. “Auguri … Doppi” (“Luck per double)”, Batista Re a Parolin whispered during the Mass. In addition, he has also caught the attention that Battista remembered to mention Pope Francis at that mass. Today, Pietro Parolin, who was desired “luck”, is one of the most opted Cardinals to be the new Pontiff.
Francisco created 80% of the cardinals who will participate in the conclave, the largest and most international in history with prelates from some 70 countries.
The newspaper Il Messaggero also includes in the “Papable Galaxy” to the Italian Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Hungarian Peter Erdo, the Esryanqués Malcolm Ranjith and the Spanish Ángel Fernández Artime.
These are the images wishing you “Good luck twice”
The 133 “Princes of the Church” were isolated from the world, without internet access, telephones, television or the press, until they choose a new pontiff.
A first vote is scheduled for the afternoon or night, noon from Colombia, from which the white smoking that precedes the “Habemus Papam” is not expected.
The parishioner while he will look at the small fireplace that will emit the result of the scrutiny in smoke. In the Plaza San Pedro, a few thousand tourists and faithful already took photographs of the small copper tube, almost indistinguishable.
“We come to see the smoking,” France-Press Gabriela Sanz, a 48-year-old tourist from Mar del Plata, Argentina, told the France-Press. “We already had an Argentine Pope who was something unique in history. And now it would be an emotion to see a smoke. It doesn’t matter if it is not white,” he added.
“Divine disposition”
When the master of the pontifical liturgical celebrations, Monsignor Diego Ravelli, closed the doors, an applause was heard in the Plaza San Pedro.
The cardinals swore before keeping secret about the process and “faithfully” the role of Pontiff if elected by “divine disposition.”
With the red coral habit, which honors the blood of Christ, first pronounced the oath together and then individually before the altar with their hand on the gospel.
The Italian Pietro Parolin, the oldest cardinal according to the order of precedence, led the cardinals In the Latin invocation of the Holy Spirit: “Veni, Creator Spiritus.”
The choice will foreseeably need more negotiations and several votes in the Sistine Chapel, conditioned with several rows of inns with brown and red fabrics, on which the names of each voter appeared.
Faced with the magnificent frescoes of the final judgment, the sloping will vote “in the presence of God” under solemn silence.
Each cardinal writes the name of its candidate, bend the ballot and place it on a silver plate, which is used to deposit it in an urn located in front of the final judgment.
The ballots are burned in a stove with the help of chemicals: if you do not reach two thirds, the smoke is black; If there is dad, the smoking is white.
“Bergoglists” against conservatives
If no one obtains the required two thirds – at least 89 votes – to proclaim the 267th Pontiff, the cardinals will vote four times from Thursday: two in the morning and two in the afternoon.
Sistine will not be a space for speeches, debates and negotiations that lead to a name in which the “Bergoglist”, devotees by Jorge Bergoglio, and the most conservative wing that his pontificate reformist focused on the poor are agreed.
The exchanges will be given during meals or meetings at the Santa Marta residence and other Vatican units, where the cardinals will be isolated without internet, cell phone, television or press access.
Benedict XVI and Francisco’s elections took two days. Most cardinals estimates maximum three; The most pessimistic, five. Those wandered, in any case, swear to keep the details of the whole process secret.
