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Habemus Papam: Is Bergoglio

Lombardi: The courage of Cardinalschoice of Pope Bergoglio is a “surprise” and it was a choice that demonstrates “the courage of the cardinals to broaden perspectives. It is the first time a pope from another continent. ” Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office accepts her the choice of his successor Benedict XVI. A Pope who demonstrates “style of simplicity and evangelical witness” and that is also a continuity with Benedict XVI. For Lombardi is “a good response to the expectations of the people of Latin America.”21:19 “The Pope has said he wants to pray Our Lady and tomorrow will probably be in Santa Maria Maggiore.” He said the director of the Vatican press office, Father Federico Lombardi, in press briefing

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March 13, 2013 7:33 pm
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White smoke, elected the new pope

19:11 A roar of the Piazza San Pietro has welcomed the white smoke. The mob is rushing in the churchyard of St. Peter’s Basilica, is a riot of songs and photos. 19:06 White smoke. 

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March 13, 2013 5:22 pm
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Conclave, the second day. The smoke is still black

12:47 Obama in the TV show Good Morning America on the Pope said: “I believe that a pope American would have the same effect in presiding over the church like a Polish pope, Italian or Guatemalan” 12:05 is immediately followed by the black smoke from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, which he referred to as-the first of three votes yesterday afternoon and this morning-the two have not been sufficient to elect the new Pope 11:39 Black smoke …. but lighter than that of yesterday evening

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March 13, 2013 11:12 am
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Conclave, the second day

10:16 After the first ballot yesterday with its black smoke, now there are 4 votes, two in the morning and two in the afternoon. Its smoke that you get by burning the ballots, but are made not after every single vote, but at 12 o’clock in the morning and once in the evening at 19. If after a vote should be intermediate the election of the pope then the white smoke will be in the middle of the morning, between 10:30 and 11 am and in the afternoon from 17:30 to 18.

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March 13, 2013 8:31 am

The day of the Conclave, at 7:00 PM the first smoke

17:39 It was the master of papal liturgical celebrations, Msgr. Guido Marini, notice the “all out” and shut the door of the Sistine Chapel, giving a start to the Conclave. From the Sistine out all those involved in the ceremony and the prelates of the Roman Curia. Among others Mgr. Georg Gaenswein, Prefect of the Papal Household and secretary of Benedict XVI. Before the voting, the cardinals will attend the second meditation foreseen by the Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis, which will be given by Cardinal Maltese Prosper Grech. 17:29 The Cardinals continue the procession and the oath 17:17 According to the formula in Latin:” I promise, pledge and swear. So ‘so help me God and these Holy Gospels which I touch with my hand.”

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March 12, 2013 4:11 pm
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Lombardi: Tomorrow probably black smoke

The first smoke, waiting after 20 tomorrow, will have difficulty ‘success since the first vote. This was announced by the director of the Vatican press office, Father Federico Lombardi, the press briefing. With the tenth general congregation closed this morning in the Vatican ended the work of the General Congregations, a sort of ‘pre-conclave’ of cardinals, electors and not in anticipation of the election of the new pope. In the classroom of the great synod at the Vatican were 152 cardinals, while there were 28 cardinals interventions that have increased the number of contributions made by them to 161.

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March 11, 2013 10:20 pm
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A Pope like Wojtyla. First black the outsider in the Sistine Chapel

VATICAN CITYThe Ghanaian Turkson, the Guinean Sarah, the South African Napier, the Congolese Monsengwo Pasinya. The African continent expresses four names credible. Africa however has more in conclave in the quality and quantity of eligible candidates to voters (only 11 compared to 60 in Europe and 33 in the Americas). What Sarah is one of the ideal profiles for the papacy: it combines pastoral experience at home and in international Curia,” says Father Bernardo Cervellera, director of AsiaNews agency of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions. Sarah was bishop in Africa, prisoner of war and is now in the Vatican capodicastero. Has taken the place of Etchegeray as “a man of the papal mission impossible in the diplomatic and humanitarian: from Lebanon to Southeast Asia. It is also estimated by Obama and chance to “outsiders”.

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March 9, 2013 11:21 am
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Conclave begins Tuesday March 12th 2013

The conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI will open Tuesday, March 12th, after less than two weeks ‘vacant’. This afternoon, during their eighth meeting, the cardinals have voted, taking advantage of the opportunity – granted by Pope Ratzinger with the Motu Proprio “Normas Nonnullas” a few days before his resignation. The news, waiting for the late afternoon, it was announced earlier than expected from the Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, who participates in the General Congregations of the cardinals in the New Synod at the Vatican. The Conclave will be preceded, on Tuesday morning, the Mass “pro eligendo Pontiff” in St. Peter’s Basilica, and in the afternoon will be the input of the cardinals in conclave, with a procession of the Pauline Chapel Sistine Chapel, accompanied by the singing of ‘hymn Veni Creator Spiritus.

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March 8, 2013 5:52 pm