Posted on 03/12/2013 12:41:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A plume of black smoke billowed from the Vatican on Tuesday, indicating cardinals have not yet chosen a successor for Pope Benedict XVI on the first day of conclave.
The cardinals now return to the Vatican's Santa Marta hotel for the night. They return to the Apostolic Palace for Mass Wednesday morning and a new round of voting. Beginning Wednesday, the cardinals will cast four ballots a day – twice in the morning and twice in the afternoon. Earlier Tuesday, the 115 cardinals tasked with electing a new pope were locked in the Sistine Chapel, marking the start of conclave.
Monsignor Guido Marini, master of liturgical ceremonies, closed the double doors after shouting "Extra omnes," Latin for "all out," telling everyone but those taking part in the conclave to leave the frescoed hall.
Conclave voting entails each cardinal writing his choice on a rectangular piece of paper inscribed with the words "Eligo in summen pontificem" — Latin for "I elect as Supreme Pontiff."
Holding the folded ballot up in the air, each approaches the altar and places it on a saucer, before tipping it into an oval urn, as he intones these words: "I call as my witness, Christ the Lord, who will be my judge that my vote is given to the one who, before God, I think should be elected."
After the votes are counted, and the outcomes announced, the papers are bound together with a needle and thread, each ballot pierced through the word "Eligo." The ballots are then placed in a cast-iron stove and burned with a special chemical.
That's when all eyes will turn to the 6-foot-high copper chimney erected atop the Sistine Chapel to pipe out puffs of smoke to tell the world if there's a new pope.
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We need a humorous Cardinal who would send up green or red smoke.
Does the White House do this when there is no budget?
Or they hired Great White to do their pyrotechnics.
That would be great!
If Jesus showed up at the Conclave and said, "I will talk with this righteous soul." Then I would be impressed.
As an agnostic, I believe the vast majority of Christians are good people. At least they try to be kind to their fellow men and attempt to respect human life - unlike a certain religion I won't name. Yes, I will, it's called Islam.
And does gray smoke signal how many kids were molested today?...Who cares?
You are correct. The clothing and buildings give it all away.
Front-page global media coverage of the conclave’s Carbon Footprint in 3.....2.....1......
the caterers are pleased
There already was a Pope Hilarius.
The MSM coverage of the Pope-selection process follows a predictable a script.
1. Dredge up, and re-air every abuse-scandal story — whether based on facts, innuendo, or pure fiction.
2. Interview every “dissident”, nominal “Catholic” they can; to promote the homosexual and “progressive” agenda. Drive home the message that the Church needs to reform, to “keep up with the times”.
3. For the local slant, run stories about the local Cardinals or Bishops, who are considered “front runners” for the job. If they are indeed “front runners”, find and report some “dirt” on them. If the local boys aren’t “front runners”, bloviate about how this proves that the Church is beyond hope.
4. Pull the usual airheads off the sports, fashion, or weather beats to produce vacuous reports about the horse-race, the rituals, and the pomp and circumstance. Make sure we all know more than we ever needed to know about smoke signals.
5. Avoid any substantive reporting — but, give the impression of reporting on substance by treating the selection of the Pope as just another political election. Use a lot of political buzz-words, such as “conservative” (bad), and “progressive” (good).
6. Once the Pope has been selected, round up the usual “dissidents” and “progressives” to tell us what a bad choice this was.
RE: There already was a Pope Hilarius.
From Wikipedia:
Pope Saint Hilarius (also Hilarus, Hilary) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 461 to 28 February 468. He was canonized as a saint after his death.
The Sardinian archdeacon of Rome, Hilarius was elected bishop of Rome, probably on 17 November 461, and was consecrated on 19 November 461.
(NOTE: Hilarius was anything but...)
Sarcasm or opinion? I just don't get why so many billions need to hang their hopes on an everlasting life in this Universe, when NOBODY has any idea what's behind it. Guess what? We didn't know we existed before we were born and my belief is we won't know that we existed after we die. That's probably what scares people. To me, it's just a matter of being eternally asleep, since I know nothing then either.
I have to laugh at physicists who claim they've figured out universal laws, but still can't reconcile relativity to quantum mechanics. They're so in need of answers that they now call the "big bang" the "singularity". Different name of no matter. I knew as a child that humankind will never know what is behind the Universe.
So, to include the ego-centric domineering dictators/politicians who create war, we also have organized religion to cause more human misery. You can probably tell I'm fed up with the whole mess called humankind. 63 years of bulls*t, plus a rational mind, will do that to you.
I’m sorry, but I just don’t care and think it’s all a man-made political contest.
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Do you know of one “man-made” institution that has lasted continuously for 2 thousand years? Can you name just one?
Who cares? Oh, just around a billion or so Catholics plus another couple billion interested observers...You shmuck, who do you think?
Boy, are you in for a suprise.
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