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The pre -concrete was also the time of the rankün. Rumors and a campaign on social media should bring two favorites for their chances. A conservative German cardinal was highly active in the media.
On Tuesday it was over with the more or less open election campaign for the Pope election. 120 cardinals moved into the Casa Santa Marta, the guest house of the Vatican. For the other 13 Purple carriers entitled to vote, there were also rooms in the walls of the church state.
It was the wedding of the « Vaticanisti », the professional Vatican observer in the media that interpreted every sighting of cardinals, any secret meeting in the Easter, the religious and messages in the Borgo, the quarter between the Engelsburg and the Vatican. Louis Raphael Sako, the Cardinal of Baghdad, caught her when walking after the rosary prayer. He predicts a short conclave: « We have very clear ideas. »
« /> Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako from Baghdad. AFP / Andreas Solaro
« Heretical » Lennon song
The rumor mill is the basis for the « Toto-Papa », the popular betting exchange with almost a dozen favorites-including Pietro Parolin, the Cardinal State Secretary, and Luis Antonio Tagle, the co-prefect for evangelizing. No wonder that the two cardinals were targeted by the Ranküne. Circles that are hostile to the Francis confidante slogan spread the rumor that the 70-year-old had suffered a weakness during a session. Medical treatment was necessary, it said. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni denied, cardinal colleagues jumped to the side. For them, it was a « clear attempt » to torpedo the candidate’s chances.
« /> Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle. AFP / Tiziana Fabi
The Portal Life Site News, in turn, promoted a six -year -old video that shows the Filipino cardinal when singing « Imagine », the peace anthem John Lennons. The ex-beatle draws a world « without heaven, hell, religion »-for conservative representatives a heresia, a heresy. Tagle hurried to emphasize that he only sang a shortened version without the incriminated passage.
A « civil war »?
It is so hard in the camp election campaign for the future of the Catholic Church. The description of Marco Politis, one of the leading Vaticanologists, is exaggerated, but obviously well -founded. He wrote from the Francis era as a subliminal « civil war » within the Catholic Church. He recently described the early mention of « Papabili », of Pope candidates, as mere maneuvers between the camps. Massimo Franco, a colleague of politician, spent the slogan after Francis’s pontificate: « Never again a South American, never again a Jesuit again. »
The ribbon « Cardinalem Collegii Recensio » of two conservative publicists, a British and an American, in which she portray cardinals with her ideological views, supposed strengths and weaknesses, caused a stir in Vatican circles-with a special focus on candidates with a conservative profile. Meanwhile, Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi also listened. In the « La Repubblica » newspaper, the Japanese cardinal announced that many of the 23 Asian cardinals in the block would vote for a candidate – he left it open to whom.
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