US EditionPapal conclave: Here's why you won't know the results of the election, other than who wins
- Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, died on Easter Monday at 88 years old at Casa Santa Marta.
- As the successor to Saint Peter, the Pope leads 1.4 billion Catholics, but his authority is not recognized by other Christian denominations.
- Following his death, Kevin Joseph Farrell, the cardinal chamberlain, sealed the Pope's apartment and will destroy his fisherman's ring.
- The Vatican announced the Pope's death, referring to it as his return "to the house of the Father" and indicating simpler funeral rites.
- The College of Cardinals will convene a conclave within 15-20 days to elect a new Pope, a process involving secret meetings and voting.
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Meet the ‘papabile’: The likely contenders to become the next pope
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A diverse cast of cardinals gathering at the Vatican for Pope Francis’ funeral will soon turn to voting for his successor as head of the Catholic Church. Only a few are considered likely candidates for the papacy, or “papabile” in Italian. Because of Francis’ elevation of prelates from the “peripheries,” many of the electors will have met only this week, while those who work in the Curia, the Vatican’s bureaucracy, know each…
Papal conclave: Here's why you won't know the results of the election, other than who wins
The death of Pope Francis means a papal conclave will be held to select a successor, but besides who wins, the public will most likely not know how many votes the successor received, nor would they know much about what happened during the conclave. Here's why.
No date has yet been set for the election of the new pontiff
The cardinal electors will meet behind closed doors in the Sistine Chapel during the conclave to elect the successor of Pope Francis, who died this Monday at the age of 88. Thus the election, governed by the Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis, promulgated by John Paul II in 1996, will take place.
The Stages of the Conclave Ceremony - teleSUR English
Strict rules guide the cardinals in selecting the new Pope of the Catholic Church. If there is something that has barely changed in the Catholic Church over the decades, it is the strict ceremonial of the conclave—the vote by the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel to elect the new pope. RELATED: At Least 200,000 People Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral They are no longer locked in without food until a pontiff is chosen, and the number of cardinals has c…
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