Sentences with phrase «cardinal electors»
Twelve cardinal electors have not yet arrived in Rome, but were expected to arrive later Monday and Tuesday, he said.
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Of that group, 103 were cardinal electors who will choose the next pope.
With solemnity, he delivered a homily about moving the Catholic Church forward to the cardinal electors, who were dressed in light yellow robes.
another passing tought most of the cardinals electors are in their 60 or 70 years old according to the cannon law they could elect someone from the archbishop branch I am sure there is a younger and stronger priest that will have the courage and the strenght to clean and stear the barc of St. Peter and he will make the church stronger by correcting the wrongs of the past and mending and shapping the future of the church otherwise stay tuned for another older cardinal to be elected pope and wait another 8 years and we will have this very unsettleing situation once again.
Not exact matches
Catholic governance is a closed circle, a feedback loop where popes appoint bishops of like mind and bishops, as elector cardinals, elect a pope of like mind.
The 115 cardinal - electors taking part in the conclave will enter the closed - door process after a morning Mass, the Vatican said.
The cardinals voted Friday morning to accept the letters of explanation of two cardinal - electors who are eligible to vote for the next pope but will not attend the conclave: Keith O'Brien of Scotland and Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja of Indonesia.
Everywhere I keep hearing that when the cardinals of the Catholic Church meet next month to elect Pope Benedict XVI's successor, there will be 117 electors in the conclave.