What is the papal rags: Inside the ancient process to choose the next Pope
After a pope died Catholic church “Papal Anklave” elects its next leader through an ancient election process.
In practice, since at least 1276, the closure collects the best bishop of the church – the college of the Cardinals – from all over the world. Although now there are more than 240 cardinal, they are only 80, the right to vote in the parcel and the number of cardinal voters is limited to 120.
Almost all the prefects of the Vatican’s offices lose their jobs when a pope dies, but a few people, including the minister of the Foreign Minister and Liturnic Ceremonies, as a result of several roles.
The floor occurs Sistine chapel of the Vatican and cardinals are kept in serious isolations to avoid effects out of the rest of the world. In the process, this isolation, even the opinion of the name “Key” means “Key”, “Key” means “key”, “key” means that the cardinal voters are locked when they are locked when they think the new Pope will be.
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Incense, on April 8, 2005, on April 8, 2005, on April 8, 2005, John Paul was thrown over the coffin during the funeral in St. Peter Square. (Peter MacDiamid / Getty Images)
There is also an emphasis to select the pope to reduce the amount of time in the church without a leader. Cardinals were first voted, parcel start days. Then at least twice every day – in the morning and evening – sounds until a Pope is selected.
Although the general practice in the modern Catholic Church is not always the case, although to choose a pope from their ranks of cardinalals.
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Pope Francis, April 2025, 2025, Easter Sunday receives Vice President JD Vance in the Vatican Vatican. (Vatican Media AP, HO)
The results will usually start with a special mass mentioned Holy Peter’s basilica, Cardinal calls the Holy Spirit for guidance.
Cardinals vote by a hidden voting of the pope. In each voice, a cardinal will write a choice in a piece of paper, and the last decision to remind Michaelangelo to the giant fresco – and the vote is throwing the voice ballot.
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The cartons of the Catholic Church are involved in the election enclave on April 18, 2005, Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. (Arthuro Mari – Vatican / Getty Images)
Two-thirds of the sounds need to choose a new pope. More than two-thirds of the corresponding cardinal voters were assigned Pope Francis. However, these cardinals maintain a set of different points and come from all different places in the world.
After each sound, ballots are burned and the ashes are used to send a signal to the rest of the world whether a decision is made. A black smoke rising from Sistine Chapel means the white smoke is selected while a pope.
Gerhard Ludwig Cardinal Müller, right, in a consistent in St. Peter’s Basilica. (Johannes Neudecker / Image Alliance)
After receiving two-thirds of a cardinal sound, the dean of the Cardinals College asks if he was ready to accept the position. If he accepts, then he must choose his papal name. Cardinal Jose Mario Bergoglio, called “Pope Francis” to become the first Pope to choose the name.
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New Pope “Habemus Pope after the world’s white smoke burning. – “There is a Pope” – implements the newly selected Pope process and perform the first blessing of Rome and the rest of the world.
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