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the Conclave
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Absolutely... do you have a Papal prediction?
I'm going with Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, the Archbishop of Managua.
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I’m predicting Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle emerges from this as the next Pope. Of course, Pope Francis made a lot of enemies so they may choose someone more conservative and traditional this time.
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I suppose it will be a non.Italian again
I do...it's an interesting ritual, to say the least...
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tonight at 7 will be the first voting
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Habemus Papam!
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gaudium magnum!
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American Cardinal Robert Prevost has been created Pope Leo XIV.
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Now the best Pope of all time is Celestine V who was Pope from July 5 to December 13 of 1294. He made an edicts that Popes can definitely resign if they want to, and then he promptly resigned. He was a monk who enjoyed an ascetic lifestyle, so Popery wasn't really for him. When he was first elected Pope he tried to flee but captured by a bunch of Cardinals and the King of Naples who dragged him to Rome to be crowned. To be fair, it was all his own fault. When the Conclave has failed to elect a Pope for two years he sent an angry letter saying that God was pissed and they would soon face divine wrath. They didn't like that and retaliated by naming him Pope. After he resigned he hid in the woods for some time, knowing his successor would try to jail him, but after some time he thought he could try to return to his monastery, and was captured and jailed by Pope Boniface VIII. After a few months in prison, Celestine V passed away, there are rumors that Boniface might have had him executed in secret but no proof of that.
A few years later when Pope Boniface had died, king Philip IV of France, who had hated Boniface pressured his successor Clement V to nominate Celestine for sainthood, he also pressured to new Pope to hold a posthumous trial of Boniface VIII for heresy and sodomy, but no verdict against him was delivered.
A few years later when Pope Boniface had died, king Philip IV of France, who had hated Boniface pressured his successor Clement V to nominate Celestine for sainthood, he also pressured to new Pope to hold a posthumous trial of Boniface VIII for heresy and sodomy, but no verdict against him was delivered.