The conclave to choose the next Pope is underway in the Vatican. The cardinals: The PRASTES that are under the Pope in the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church will vote for a secret vote for a successor of Pope Francis until a candidate wins a two -thirds majority.
While it is possible that we do not know what the conclave is said, it is out of the limits for strangers, we have a pretty good idea of ​​how it will look. Duration The meeting, the cardinals will follow specific instructions and use several distinctive objects to facilitate the process, many of the tradition.
Here is a look at some of those objects and the meaning behind them.
Voting instruments
When the cardinals vote in the Sistine Chapel, they will sit in the rows of simple wooden tables. At one end of the chapel, a large table is established for those who direct the vote, according to the Dominici Gregis University, or UDG, one of the documents used to govern the papal transition.
The room also contains voting instruments, including an urn to collect the ballots, a set of wooden balls and a needle and thread. The urn is used to collect the ballots, rectangular paper pieces printed with the Latin phrase “Eligo in Summir Pontificem” (“elected as a supreme pontiff”).
The tickets contain a space where each cardinal writes in the name of their chosen candidate. The tickets are placed in the urn and eliminated to count after all cardinals have voted.
Wooden balls are used to track the tickets. The balls have written numbers on the subject that correspond to the number of cardinals who vote in the conclave. As The Ballots Are Being Counteed, An Attendant Removes One Of The Wooden Balls for Each Ballot, To Reure The Number Match The Number of Cardinals, Accord Beate Beate Beate Beate Beate Beate Beate Beate Beate Beate Beate Beate Beate BuryBers, Burnes Burn’t Burybers, Burnes Burn’t Burybers, Burnes Burn’t Burybers, Burnes Burn’t Burybers, Burn’t’s Burybers, Burnes, Burned Burn’t Burybers, Burn’s Burn’t Burber. And another vote is made immediately, according to the UDG
As the tickets are read, they are drilled with the needle through the word “Eligo” and placed in the thread “, so that the tickets can be kept more in form”, according to the UDG
The Oath of Secret
The conclave is a secret institution, and many steps are tasks to avoid leaks, including the restriction of telephones, internet and newspapers by the cardinals.
The members of the Cardinals College, the body that will choose the Pope, must also do and sign an oath of secret, according to the UDG, the oath reads, in part: “I will observe the absolute and perpetual secret with all those who are not partly in the launch of the banks and their scrutiny for the choice of the supreme Pontiff.”
Cardinals must also promise not to register anything in the city of the Vatican so that the people of the elections. The punishment for breaking the oath is the “automatic” excommunication, according to the oath.
The stove
The weekend before the conclave began, the Vatican workers installed a simple stove in which the tickets would be burned in the Sistine Chapel. Fire teams also installed a fireplace on the roof of the chapel, where the smoke will leave the building.
After each voting round, the tickets are mixed with chemicals that, when burn, emit black or black smoke. Black smoke means that cardinals have not yet reached the required majority; The white smoke means that a new Pope has chosen bones and the vote is over.
The seal
At the beginning of the conclave, the Apostolic Palace, which contains the Sistine Chapel, is closed to the public. On Wednesday, the members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard placed strings with the guard seal in the entrances to the palace to guarantee privacy and maintain the secret for the cardinals.
The Vatican City Government also planned to deactivate the cell phone service within its territory during the duration of the conclave, starting on Wednesday afternoon.
Papal clothing
After a Pope is chosen, he is tasks of the “room of the tears”, a small room next to the Sixtine chapel, where the white papal soton will be put for the first time. The three sizes garments are prepared and maintained in the room, since no one knows who, or what size, the next Pope.
The room is known as the “tears room” that there are accounts of previous potatoes that are exaggerated with emotion in the room, and move to tears, after their choice. After the Pope puts his clothes, he is presented to the public for the first time.
