Stove installed in the Sixtine chapel where the ballots will be burned during the conclave to choose the new Pope

Vatican workers installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where the tickets will be burned during the Next conclave to choose a new Pope, While Jockeying continued outside who among the cardinals is in the race.

The Holy Headquarters launched a video on Saturday of the preparations for the conclave of May 7, which included the installation of the stove and a false floor in the fresco Sistine chapel to do it the same. The footage also showed the workers to align at simple wooden tables where the cardinals will sit and cast their votes from Wednesday, and a ramp that leads to the main seat area for any cardinal in a wheelchair.

On Friday, firefighters were seen on the roof of the chapel that join the chimney from which the smoke signs will indicate if a Pope has been chosen.

All preparations lead to the solemn boato from the beginning of the conclave to choose a successor to Pope Francis, The first Latin American Pope in history, who died on April 21 at 88. The Vatican said in a statement that Francis He died of a stroke That put it in a coma and led to irreversible heart failure.

The Vatican spokesman, Matteo Bruni, issued a net denial on Friday of reports that one of the main candidates, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, had suffered health problems at the beginning of the week that required medical care. The reports, which spoke of a blood pressure problem, were carried by the Italian media and collected by Catholicvote.org, the United States site headed by Brian Burch, the choice of the Trump administration to be an ambassador of the Holy See.

Speculation about the health of a papal candidate is a pillar of the policy and maneuvers of the conclave, since several factions try to torpedo or boost certain candidates. Francis experienced the first -hand dynamics: when the votes were in the 2013 conclave, a cardinal without breath asked him if it was true that he only had a lung, as the rumors had. (Francis later told that he told the cardinal that he had taken the upper lobe of a lung when he was young). He was chosen a short time later.

Some are brought into other “Pope-Fuls”. In addition to the parolin, Other candidates whose names have emerged include Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the former archbishop of Manila and the conservative cardinal Robert Sarah de Guinea.

You know less about the 15 cardinals that Francis named countries that previously had none, or how they will vote. One of them is Anders Arborelius of Sweden.

“We live in a moment of conflict, wars,” he said. “Therefore, it is important to have a voice that can say something else, that God is present.”

What is the papal conclave?

The papal conclave It is the closely saved meeting of cardinal voters, all cardinals who serve under 80 years of age, to choose the next Pope.

The exact number varies, but there are currently 135 eligible cardinal voters to summon the Vatican around the world to choose the successor of Pope Francis. Of all current cardinal voters, 108 were named by Pope Francis during his 12 -year -old papacy. They come from 71 different countries, including 10 from the United States.

What happens in the conclave?

According to the rules of the Church, the conclave must begin from 15 to 20 days after the death of a Pope. Pope Francis died on April 21.

On Wednesday morning he begins with a mass in the Basilica of San Pedro celebrated by the dean of the Faculty of Cardinals, Cardinal Giovanni Battista, after which the cardinal voters are kidnapped from the rest of the world. In the afternoon, they will process in the Sistine Chapel, listen to a meditation and take their oaths before throwing their first ballots.

If no candidate reaches the necessary majority of two thirds in the first vote, the papers will be burned and the black smoke will indicate to the world that no Pope was chosen.

The cardinals will return to their Vatican residence for the night and return to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday morning to take two votes in the morning, two in the afternoon, until a winner is located.

Each cardinal must make an oath of absolute secret before voting. If they disseminate any information from the conclave, the Church excommunicates them.

After every two rounds, the ballots are burned in the stove. If the Pope is not chosen, the tickets are mixed with cartridges that contain potassium, anthracene perclorato, a component of coal tar, and sulfur to produce black smoke outside the chimney. If there is a winner, the ballots are mixed with potassium, lactose chloro and chloroform resin to produce white smoke.

The white smoke left the fireplace in the fifth vote on March 13, 2013, and Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was presented to the world as Pope Francis shortly after the Basilica of San Pedro de San Pedro.

The preparations are underway as the cardinals are in private in more informal sessions to discuss the needs of the Catholic Church in the future and the type of potato that can lead it.

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