Controversy in the Vatican by Angelo Becciu, the cardinal who Francisco forced to resign and wants to vote for the next Pope

In this argument it is supported by the conservative sectors and must be decided if the cardinals who participate in the general congregations eventually have the power to reverse a decision of the Pope.

Apparently, Becciu participated in the first general congregation, last Tuesday. “Everyone has been invited,” Bruni said, without confirming or denying the version. But the truth is that, while they began to occur, outside the public spotlights, the classic meals and gatherings in which the pre -main maneuvers are woven, the “Becciu case” is the one that monopolizes the conversation.

And the big question is whether the cardinal rights ever returned to some history.

“The situation is very different from all cases of the past becauseThat at the moment no papal document is known to say what your status isbut we simply know a statement from the Vatican press room that said that Cardinal Becciu lost cardinal rights, but what are the cardinal rights? ”He told The nation The priest Roberto Regi, professor of the Church of the Church of the Pontifical Gregorian University, in an interview.

“There is no papal document to tell us and at the time Professor Alberto Melloni (another famous expert historian in the Catholic Church) commented that The choice of a Pope is not a right, but a duty of the cardinals”He added.

How was the Becciu scandal

Angelo Becciu is a 76 -year -old Italian cardinal who in 2023 was formally sentenced to 5 years and 6 months in jail for financial crimes. He was the first religious with that rank to be tried by a Criminal Court of the Vatican. But before, in 2020, Francisco had removed his “rights associated with cardinals” after knowing the scandal.

It was found that he had bought a building in the London heart, In Sloane Avenue, an old headquarters of the Harrods galleries in the exclusive Barrio de Chelsea. But alsoduring the process other financial crimes arose, such as donations of 125 thousand euros that the cardinal entered the account of an association linked to the Cáritas Sarda de Ozierihis native place, and that at that time presided over one of his brothers.