How to get the new pope? Conclaves ends when white smoke is smoked
In Rome, for a dozen years, they have not spoken about the Conclav, strictly secretly deciding the cardinals about the new pope, which takes place in the locked Sistine Chapel. It was last when he resigned Joseph Ratzinger and then they brought a cardinal to Rome from Buenos Aires Jorge Maria Bergoglia.
It was a little complicated for the church at the time. The Pope, who resigned and was no longer the ruling sovereign of the papal state and the supreme chief of Catholic communion, accompanied the events from the then papal summer residence in Castel Gandolf. He was still walking around or sitting in his palace in white clothes, then in the Vatican Gardens for a decade, and the Cardinals decided in the Sistine Chapel about the successor, who crossed Castel Gandolf as a palace in which the pope had spent the hot summers so far. In the future, in the future, the Vatican will certainly also prepare some serious analysis of what the kingdom with two kings means, for now these topics do not want to tackle, most actors are still alive.
About the Conclav began to whisper again, then also to speak loudly when they are the pope Francis They were taken to Gemelli Hospital in mid -February. He was 88 years old, nothing more than before. Cardinal, whose fundamental task is to elect a new pope, were gathered several times last year, last December, when Francis convened them to a consistent, where he proclaimed 21 new cardinals. Read the full story by buying a subscription.
