Habemus Papam (‘We have Pope!’) It is the Latin announcement with which Cardinal Protodiácon Death of Franciscoat 88, because of a complex lung infection and other serious conditions.
The death of Jorge Mario Bergoglioborn in Buenos Aires in 1936, was confirmed by the head of the Department of Health of the Vatican and announced by Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, Camarlengo del Vaticano, the position that after the death of a pontiff assumes the authority at the vacancy, who becomes the de facto administrator of the Vatican.
Francisco, who left the hospital on March 23 after a long hospitalization of 37 days for serious pneumonia, appeared in public for the last time this Sunday, April 20 in the Plaza de San Pedro, for the traditional Urbi et Orbi blessing.
The fisherman’s ring will be destroyed and the vacancy period will be declared
After his death, the body of Pope Francis, a descendant of Piedmontan Italian immigrants, will be transferred to its private chapel, dressed in a white cassock and liturgid ornamentsand placed on a wooden coffin lined in zinc.
After reformulating the papal funeral standards in 2024, his body will be displayed directly within the coffin in the Basilica of San Pedro so that the people can pay tribute, but will not be exposed in a high catafalco or transferred for private views of ecclesiastical hierarchs. The Nine -day mourning known as novelty.
The Fisherman’s ring -A ring recorded with a seal that carries the image of St. Peter and that the Pope behaves as his successor- and the Vacant headquarters period, in which ecclesial leadership is in the hands of the Cardinals College, but without faculties to make transcendental decisions until the new successor is chosen.
In March 2013, After the resignation of Pope Benedict XVIthe faithful Catholic took two long weeks to know who their Next representative of God on earthwhen the crowd gathered in the Plaza de San Pedro del Vaticano he saw a column of white smoke rise to the sky from the roof of the Sistine Chapel. A smoke as a result of the burn ballots of the vote held among the members of the Cardinal College. Final act that seals the process of selection that dates back, allegedly, to the times of Jesus Christ. What will happen now?
The cardinals are locked in the Sistine Chapel and a maximum of four votes per day is allowed
Once everyone has known about the death of the Pope then he sets The start date of the conclave, Normally between 15 and 20 days after the death of the Pope -This means that, predictably, it could begin between May 6 and 11 – and all cardinals under 80 years are summoned to Rome to participate in the election of the new Pontiff. There are currently 252 cardinals, but only 138 could participate by age.
The day of the start of the conclave, a method used by the Catholic Church to select its leader, the cardinals displaced to Rome celebrate a mass, Pro choosing Pontificeprior to this democratic system and chaired by Cardinal Dean, to ask God wisdom and certainty to choose the future Catholic leader.
Then, the cardinals access the interior of the Sistine Chapel, where they will vote to choose a new Pope. In a procedure loaded with symbolisms, the cardinals are locked up – in fact, conclave comes from the key cum key, locked – and no one can enter or leave during voting.
How long can the development of the conclave take to choose the new Pope?
They are done two votes in the morning and two in the afternoonand the vote is totally secret. The cardinals eat and rest in the Santa Marta housea residence adjacent to the Basilica of San Pedro, inside the city of the Vatican. In each round, the cardinals write the name of their candidate on a ballot and a new vote must be made if none receives the two thirds required.
The debate within the Church is divided into two main currents: the progressives, who seek to continue with Francisco’s reforms, and the conservatives, who want a return to the strictest tradition.
The choice It does not have any maximum established time officiallyso they can even pass months until the three cardinals designated as registrars to know who will be the new Pope.
November 1268 took place The longest conclave in history, which was developed for two years and ten months. The lack of agreement between the cardinals, political conflicts and external pressures were the main reasons for the extensive vacancy that ended with the Choice of Italian Teobaldo Visconti, who chose the name of Gregorio X.
In recent years, conclaves have developed in a lower time due to consensus among the cardinals: Benedict XVI was chosen to the fourth votewhile Francisco was appointed after five rounds of choice.
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