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The Catholic Church volition commence the predetermination to take its leader, the Pope, who is the successor of the Apostle Peter, connected Wednesday, May 7, 2025, pursuing the decease of Pope Francis.
Ghana’s ain Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, whose sanction has travel up arsenic 1 of the frontrunners to win Pope Francis, successful an aged video sighted by GhanaWeb, narrated the events that spell into the predetermination of the Pope.
Cardinal Appiah Turkson, who has taken portion successful the predetermination of 2 Popes: Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, successful the video, explained what goes connected successful the Sistine Chapel, wherever the conclave is held to elite the Pope.
His narration echoed immoderate of the scenes successful the celebrated governmental thriller, 'Conclave', but not each the scenes successful the movie were arsenic accurate.
Here are the details connected the predetermination of Popes:
Who qualifies to instrumentality portion successful the conclave?
Cardinal Appiah Turkson archetypal said that determination was nary concealed process for the predetermination of the Pope.
He besides explained that lone cardinals who are 80 years aged and beneath are allowed to instrumentality portion successful the predetermination of the Pope.
“It’s not a secret. There’s nary concealed anywhere. We speech astir mysteries with God, but there’s nary concealed successful anything. When the Pope dies oregon the spot of Peter becomes vacant, each cardinal electors – that is cardinals who are nether 80 years – are invited to Rome. It’s not a question, therefore, of voting by proxy… You request to beryllium determination physically.
“Lately, for the past fewer years, we effort to support a fig of astir 120 electors. At immoderate peculiar event, it whitethorn beryllium somewhat little oregon whatever. In the past 2 conclaves, we conscionable had astir 115 and 118… So, they are invited to Rome and they travel to Rome,” helium said.
Pre-conclave meetings:
The Ghanaian cardinal, who has held respective cardinal positions astatine the Vatican, besides gave details of what the cardinals bash aft they get successful Rome upon the invitation.
He said that the cardinals clasp a bid of meetings wherever they sermon the existent presumption of the Catholic Church and the imaginable solutions to its issues.
“What bash they do? They clasp a bid of meetings for a week oregon 2 to effort to make a imaginativeness astir the Catholic Church successful the world. What is the Catholic Church successful the satellite today? They effort to pass themselves.
“Coming from antithetic parts of the world, each 1 comes with their publication astir what the religion is. So, it’s to make a planetary imaginativeness of the Catholic Church. On the ground of that, they sometimes suggest suggestions and solutions,” helium said.
He added; “And past they spell into prayer, a benignant of retreat. Have idiosyncratic to travel preach, archer them astir the value of their task that is up of them, and springiness exhortation and truthful on.”
What happens successful the conclave?
Cardinal Appiah Turkson explained that erstwhile the cardinals get into the Sistine Chapel to commence the conclave, they person a last proclamation to punctual them of the enactment astatine hand.
They past curse an oath that they are going to ballot according to their conscience and volition not let themselves to beryllium influenced earlier the voting commences.
“When the time comes for them to spell into the Conclave, they spell successful there, each 1 dressed successful red… erstwhile they get successful there, the past exhortation, the past preaching is done. A preacher is invited to again punctual them astir the gravity of the enactment up of them and each of that. When that preaching is done, each 1 goes to instrumentality an oath oregon explicit an oath that successful the workout ahead, helium volition explicit his position, not influenced by anybody oregon anything, but by his ain caput and conscience.
“Nobody proposes a name. No sanction is projected astatine the Conclave. People travel successful there, cipher proposes a name. It’s not a question of shortlisting anytime… so, everybody comes and each 1 goes, 1 by one, there’s a formula. You curse that you ballot according to immoderate benignant of thing, and past you enactment successful the happening (ballot). So, that way, they number besides those who are successful there,” helium said.
Vote counting:
After the voting, Cardinal Appiah Turkson said that an predetermination squad is acceptable up to number the votes.
“After that, they represent the predetermination team. One of the cardinals is made to beryllium the 1 to work the names connected the votes… different 1 repeats it, and past the 2nd one, with a thread, pierces done that.
“So, each 1 past goes up to vote. In beforehand of you volition beryllium conscionable a database of names with a expanse of paper. You instrumentality it and you constitute the sanction of the idiosyncratic you privation connected it,” helium said.
The cardinal oregon immoderate Catholic antheral who wins two-thirds of the votes astatine the conclave becomes the adjacent person of the Catholic Church
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