"Oath of Secrecy": A Spanish Website Knows the Details
To win the conclave that elected Leo XIV, a candidate needed 89 votes.
First ballot (Wednesday evening)
Parolin received the most votes (35-50). Behind him were Tagle and Prevost (both around 25 votes). Other sources suggest that Prevost led from the start. Others such as Zuppi, Aveline, Vesco, Ërdo, Arborelius and Artime received fewer votes but still had a chance.
ReligionDigital.org, an anti-Catholic Spanish website, knows why the black smoke came so late on the first day (9.01pm). The former papal preacher, Cardinal Cantalamessa, extended his introductory reflexion for more than 50 minutes. He was originally scheduled to speak for no more than 15 minutes.
When he had finished, the balls were drawn for the places and functions of each elector. Then the voting took place. It took more than two hours for 133 mostly elderly gentlemen to write, go to the president's table and cast their votes using the Latin formula. The count took another 45 minutes. There was no majority.
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The good poster behind @la verdad prevalece makes my point exactly: Saint Peter became a DIFFERENT man after he became Vicar of Christ. There was a profound transformation that occurred in and through him, once he was endowed and empowered with the Charism of Supremacy and the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven were placed in his hand. Thus, we cannot judge him precipitously and erroneously because of his faults and failures BEFORE he became the 1st Pope, but must take his words and actions AS POPE to be the true measurement and barometer of both his work and his worthiness. The same must be said today of the 267th Supreme Pontiff, Pope Leo XIV. We cannot fully nor accurately assess what his Pontificate will be like or how he will reign nor his worthiness to sit on the Apostolic Throne as the Successor of Saint Peter based on our judgement of a relatively few prior troublesome words and actions of his as a Priest, Bishop and Cardinal; words and actions he mostly said and did under Obedience to his superiors. Like Saint Peter, following his acceptance of his selection as Chief Shepherd, he is now a changed man, and if his heart is pure and he loves the Lord and His Church, then the graces of his holy and sacred office will work to move him further towards the perfection of his call to the Petrine ministry. Saint Peter's cursing, denials of Christ and abandonment of his Lord to the cruel death on the Cross can never be justified, but it was all mercifully forgiven by the Lord, who looked into and discerned Peter's heart and knew his Disciple's divine destiny and future, and therefore would not allow Peter's mistakes that were a part of his past to disqualify him as unworthy to serve as His Vicar on Earth from that point onward. And thanks be to God, we can rejoice that Saint Peter's PAST in no way determined, prohibited, obstructed or diminished his great future. The same can and MUST be said of the Peter of our day, Pope Leo XIV.
SonoftheChurch St Peter received the Munus from God. While Leo XIV was elected by Bergoglian usurpers which some he himself promoted for their appointment. Do you see the essential difference ?
@Rafał_Ovile NOPE...because, unlike YOU I am not a sedevacantist invincibly poisoned by sedevacantism.
SonoftheChurch provide the definition of sede-vacantism to prove your argument. My hint is you were one last week. PS your strawman is cheap sophistry as all of your straining the gnat in St. Peter and swallowing card. Bergoglio's camel.
@Rafał_Ovile All I have to say to you is this: Repent and submit to the validly, legitimately, canonically elected Vicar of Christ on Earth. Be at peace.
SonoftheChurch do you recognize and accept validly, legitimately, canonically elected Vicar of Christ on Earth pope Benedict XVI and all of his pontificate being from 2005 to 2022 ?
@Rafał_Ovile Sorry, but sadly you are a sedevacantist and I am not going to dispute with you about your deep deceptions back and forth on this platform. To do so would be a monumental exercise in futility because of your invincible blindness, Peace.
St. Robert Bellarmine destroys Bergoglio's heretical mockery against St. Peter
When St. Peter denied Christ, he had not yet begun to be the Supreme Pontiff, for it is certain that Ecclesiastical rule was handed to him by Christ in the last chapter of John, since the Lord said to him after the resurrection: “Simon, son of John, feed my sheep.” Therefore, that denial of Peter cannot be numbered among errors of the Roman Pontiffs. Besides, I add that Peter denied Christ with words, but not truly in his heart: hence Peter did not throw off the confession of faith, nor faith itself, as we showed previously.
(St. Robert Bellarmine, On the Roman Pontiff, vol. 2, trans. by Ryan Grant [Mediatrix Press, 2016], Book IV, Ch. 8, p. 175;
St Augustine
While our Lord was being condemned to death, he feared, and denied Him. But by His resurrection Christ implanted love in his heart, and drove away fear. Peter denied, because he feared to die: but when our Lord was risen from the dead, and by His death destroyed death, what should he fear? He says to Him, Yea, Lord; you know that I love You. On this confession of his love, our Lord commends His sheep to him: He says to him, Feed My lambs. as if there were no way of Peter’s showing his love for Him, but by being a faithful shepherd, under the chief Shepherd.
Luke 22:32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren.
Saint Peter cursed, and then denied Christ —not once, but 3 times — and then abandoned Him to His Death on the Cross. I’d say that would qualify to put him in the “evil” category, lesser or greater. But thanks be to God, he didn’t stay there. He went on to fulfill his destiny as the first Chief Apostle and Vicar of Christ on Earth. Yes, he later had another setback with “evil,” and Saint Paul had to rebuke him to his face. But yet again he grew and matured and was changed by the graces endowed upon his life and ministry, which were given to him by Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Such graces, when accepted and applied, are powerful enough to thoroughly transform a man. Especially one with a pure heart who loves Christ and His Church. I am reminded with hope that the late, great Archbishop Lefebvre, served faithfully, determinedly and tirelessly as a Missionary in the foreign mission fields, just as the new Holy Father once did. It’s one of the things that draws me to him: the fact that he has a heart for missions, having served sacrificially for years as a Missionary in the foreign field, bringing Light to a dark place, just like the late Archbishop Lefebvre. Serving faithfully, selflessly and devotedly as a Missionary in a dark place requires a certain legitimate, valid, impactful, GENUINE relationship and connection with the Lord and a strong foundation in the Faith. A relationship and foundation that can’t be faked or piously pretended, and that can’t be built by hypocrisy or duplicity, but that comes from the fire of the Holy Spirit burning brightly and fervently upon the altar of the heart. I can only hope that such is the case with Pope Leo XIV. I believe we will begin to see a gradual - but very definite - transformation of the Holy Father, from the man, Priest and Bishop he once was, to the Successor of Saint Peter he must become. It will be slow and methodical...but it will be sure! At any rate, our prayers, highest wishes, congratulations and deepest filial closeness and affection are with the newly elected and beloved Holy Father. May His Holiness lead the Church into a new dawn of blazing greatness and a true and complete devotion to Christ for the Glory of God.