Rome – It is the leg called “Holy Smoke”. And it is coded by color.
The black and white columns swelled from the boats around the weekend as an expert in Massimilian pyrotechnics the sanctis tested the mechanism that will indicate the fate of the Catholic Church and who will be the next man to lead his 1.4 billion followers.
If the smoke that narrows the fireplace in the Sixtine chapel is black, it will mean the 133 cardinal electors inside for the Papal conclave He will continue voting. When it is white, Meaans have chosen the heir at St. Peter, and more recently, to Pope Francis.
“Until the election of Pope Benedict XVI, the smoke was carried out in the traditional way,” said the Sanctis, owners of the FD group fireworks. But the Vatican realized that the smoke was not particularly intense, so it had a designed electrical control unit that controlled the classic pyrotechnic smoke. “
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The nine -day mourning period for the last Pope FrancisWho died at the age of 88 on April 21 after 12 years leading the Catholic Church, the official came to an end on Monday. As that period, known by its Latin name of Novemdiales, came to an end, the boxes of cardinals, carpenters and pyrotechnics experts were already at work preparing for the conclave to choose the Francis successor.
Vatican firefighters installed the chimney in the Sistine Chapel during the weekend, Together with the little stove In which the cardinals will burn their wrinkled ballots after each vote. The vote continues, with a round the first day of the conclave and then up to four newspapers until one is conclusive, with a new pontiff chosen by a two -thirds majority plus one of the 133 voters.
Different ideologies at stake while the cardinals reflect the next Catholic leader
That secret process begins to Baywesday, with the first vote, but the cardinal voters have already begun to descend in the city of the Vatican around the world. And with them, comes the intrigue of the political process of the campaign to select one of his to lead the church forward.
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Some of the The main believers Among the cardinals, they would be expected to align with the policies and philosophies of Pope Francis if they obtained the main work of the Catholic Church, including the Swedish cardinal Anders Arborelius of the Catholic Church. He told CBS News on the weekend about meeting with many of his classmates for the first time.
“I must say that it surprises me that it is so peaceful and such a friendly atmosphere,” he said. “If you read the newspapers, you have the idea that there are two parties that fight for power.”
“Or the course there are different points of view,” says Arborelius, who attends his first conclave. “It’s natural.”
Like Francis was, Arborelius is a firm defender of immigrants. He said that migrants to Europe helped keep alive and well in the continent, making them “very important to the Church.”
“I know that there are exceptions, but still, we live in a global time, and it is very impossible to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be so that it should be so that it should be so that it should be so that it should be so that it should be so that it should be so that it should be so that it should be so that it should be so that it should be so that it should be so that it should be so that it should be so that it should be so that To be so that it should be about being to be to be to be to be to be to order, Hax “, the order of ORER, has, has. Migration and integration “to ensure that immigrant populations can prosper.
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The Swedish cardinal also expects Francis’s successor to be pressing to integrate women, in a limited degree, more in the Church’s operations.
“Some people are very anxious for having priests,” says Arborelius. “But we cannot have that. Therefore, it is important to show and help women find the positions and work they can do in the church.”
Asked why hey, Like FrancisHe supported more roles for women, but not the priesthood, the cardinal said that “according to Ourith, Christ as a man is the icon of what it is to be a priest. Mary is the icon of what a woman can be in the church.”
“Or, of course, today it is not easy to explain that,” he said, pointing out the example of the Lutheran Church in Sweden, who said he now has “more ministers than male.”
“So that is one of our tasks: to demonstrate that women have a very important place in the church, but we have to show what they can do and how they do it. And I think Pope Francis has begun this. For example, now I am always a type of dye, the state of Siogan Rafaela, also a member of the Council of the Economy, we have six … experts, that help us use the mess of the economy of the economy of the economy of the society of the society of the society of society.
However, others among the major prosthes that meet in the Vatican have been openly critical of Francis, including German cardinal Gerhard Muller, who has been a firm defender or a traditional Catholic doctrine.
“Homosexual marriage is not possible, it is absolutely against the Word of God,” he told CBS News, and added that in his opinion, that impossibility extends to the practice of the priests who bless the unions of the same sex, the rich Francis-Limado Green In a historic decision almost two years ago.
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“We cannot have a blessing in the sense of justifying a behavior or a lifestyle that is against the reason why God,” Muller told CBS News, Adjs that he believes that the next one brings more Cathol to interpret Cathol me “, but to me to play Catholtrine, but not me, but not me, but no, but not me. Butnholtrin, Butnholtrine, Butnhol for Butnol me butrine, Butnholtrine, Butnholtrine, Butnholtrine, Butnholtrine, Butnholtrine, Butnholtrine, Butnholtrine, Butnholtrine, Buttrine for the World.
It is possible that this diversity in views between cardinal voters within the Sistine Chapel can lead to prolonged conclave.
In recent times, the cardinals have decided on a new Pope in just two or three days.
The longest conclave toks place that revolves the thirteenth century, in the nearby city of Viterbo. It lasted for almost three years, and the locals were frustrated so much with the dithering that they removed the roof from the building where the cardinals stayed. Pope Gregory X. Vally Gregory chose.
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