The death of Pope Francis, this Monday at age 88, begins a long and regulated process for the Church to choose a successor.
The death of Pope Francis, this Monday at 88 years of age, It begins a long and regulated process for the Church to choose a successor, whose deadlines will be agreed and will depend on consensus among the cardinals.
1) announcement of death: Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell has verified and formalized this morning the death of the Argentine pontiff, as corresponds to him for his position as Camarlengo.
2) Announcement to the world: After confirming the death, the purple must announce it to the world. The Vatican has done it through a statement and a video. Basilica bells must touch dead.
Read more: Pope Francis died at age 88 at Casa Santa Marta
3) Vacant headquarters: In this way, the period known as “vacant headquarters” opens, without a prevailing pontiff, while the Church will be provisionally governed by the US shrimp.
4) deadlines to decide: Its duration is unpredictable because it will depend on the times chosen for their organization and how quickly the cardinals find a successor in the future conclave.
At the moment, the dean of the cardinals, Giovanni Battista Re, is calling Rome to cardinals around the world to make the “congregations”, who will decide the times of this protocol as well as the date of the funeral.
5) End of Bergoglio pontificate: The first will be to bury the deceased Pope. Meanwhile, his apartment is sealed – in the residence Casa Santa Marta and not in the apostolic palace for his choice – and his fisherman’s ring, symbol of pontifical power is destroyed.
6) Nine days: Then, the Church enters the period of the ‘novelty’, nine days of mourning in which the body of the Pope is shown to the faithful. Then, its funeral is celebrated, usually in the Plaza de San Pedro. The Vatican must also clarify its modality.
7) Simplified rite: Last year Francisco decided to simplify the funeral rites and, among the novelties, he decreed that his body was not veiled in his room but in the chapel and that he was not exposed in the Basilica on a catafalco in the Basilica of San Pedro, but inside an open coffin.
It may interest you: The moments that marked Francisco’s pontificate
8) Burial: Francisco has decided to be buried in a crypt of the Roman Basilica of Santa María la Mayor. In life he was very devout from his Marian icon ‘Salus Populi Romani’. There is still no date for it.
9) Towards the conclave: The funeral rites, it is the moment of the conclave, the rite with which the cardinals under 80 years are locked in the Sistine Chapel to choose a successor. The Vatican Law stipulates that it must be held within 20 days.
10) Agreement: The duration of the conclave is unpredictable because it depends on the agreement between the cardinals to choose a new Pope. Once a successor has been chosen, the Church will announce the news with the famous ‘Smoata Blanca’, the white smoke that will leave the chimney of the Sistine Chapel.
Loading …
