Convicted cardinal demands to be part of conclave to choose new pope, setting up Vatican standoff

Cardinal Demands Vote for New Pope Despite 5 Year Prison Sentence After Unheard of Vatican Trial

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, who was convicted in an unprecedented Vatican court process and forced to resign his position, insisted he can still vote in the upcoming papal conclave. Becciu […] The post Cardinal Demands Vote for New Pope Despite 5 Year Prison Sentence After Unheard of Vatican Trial appeared first on The Western Journal.

Pope Francis' letter bans convicted cardinal from conclave

Pope Francis reportedly wrote letters excluding a convicted cardinal from participating in the upcoming conclave to elect his successor after his death.

Convicted cardinal wants to join conclave

VATICAN CITY — Cardinals in meetings ahead of the start of a secret conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis are scratching the hair under their red skull caps as they try to decide whether a cardinal convicted of embezzlement and fraud can join in the vote. Meanwhile, advocates for sexual abuse victims of […]...Keep on reading: Convicted cardinal wants to join conclave

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State with Francis, has shown two letters typed and signed by the Pope in which Jorge Bergoglio purported to exclude from the conclave Cardinal Angelo Becciu, convicted for a case of financial irregularities in the context of the fraudulent purchase of a building in central London. According to journalist Giovanni Maria Vian in a report published this Friday in the Italian daily Domani, Cardinal Paro…

Cardinal Sardo Angelo Becciu—number 3 of the Vatican until he was sentenced in 2023 to five and a half years in prison for financial irregularities—has caused controversy since he arrived in Rome on Monday after the death of Pope Francis. Despite having been removed from his post as Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Becciu insists on participating in the conclave because Francis—who did not remove the title of Cardinal—had no…

Between Philippe Ouédraogo, whose date of birth, recently changed, allows him to be part of the cardinal voters, and the judicial case around his colleague Angelo Becciu, the papal election, scheduled for the beginning of May, stirs up.