Americans visiting Rome during the conclave describe what they want in the next Pope

He papal conclave is Convocation Wednesday To start the choice process Successor of Pope Francis. And for Americans who visit Rome this week, it is an opportunity to experience the story.

“It’s … probably once in an opportunity to be in Rome when they are doing the conclave,” John Swierk told “News Mornings”, Tony Dokoupil’s coanfrerion.

Several Americans said they believe that God will guide the conclave.

“I don’t expect much because the Holy Spirit will luck will lead the cardinals or direct the Pope after the decision,” said Grant Avis. “They will be a successor of Christ anyway, it is not really about my opinions.”

But some, like Kathy Freeman, a Catholic hostess in New Jersey that flew to Rome for work, they said: “I see it more political than divine intervention.”

“It’s like politics in the United States,” he said. “It’s another government up there.”

A new News themezone survey He discovered that 42% of American Catholics expect Pope Francis to continue his teachings. Freeman is among them, but adds that he is still dissatisfied with the aspects of the current church and raised his children out of it.

“I would love to see more female intervention everywhere in the service,” he said.

Dokoupil spoke with a group of Missouri men who were also in Rome. They said that the new Pope does not need to be more liberal or conservative, but that he needs to unite faith.

“Moreso to need someone to the left or the right, we just need someone to be a champion of faith that everyone can support,” said Alex Harold.

He also said that the papacy “does not need to adapt to age,” adding “that is why he is 2,000 years old.”

The News themezone survey shows what US Catholics want in the next Pope

Most respondents in the recent News themezone survey believe that the next Pope should talk about the political problems of the world. They would also look for a Pope who supports letting priests marry; to let women be ordered as priests; and, overwhelmingly, for the use of birth control.

But the survey found a division of opinions among American Catholics who are regular parishioners and those who rarely or never attend.

In the United States, the number of Catholics attending Mass have decreased in recent decades. Weekly or almost weekly assistance has dropped 12% since 2000, according to Gallup.

“We are going through a crisis in the Catholic Church in the United States and especially in the global north. We have young people who are simply not interested and leave,” said Father Thomas Reese, a priest and chronicler of faith for a long time. “It’s something like one in three people who were baptized Catholics who no longer identify as Catholics in the United States. That is huge!”

When will the conclave choose the next Pope?

The 133 cardinal voters that make up the conclave Get together on Wednesday. There is no deadline established for when a new Pope is chosen to lead the 1,400 million Catholics in the world, but recent popes have been chosen within two or three days after the call of the conclave.

A candidate must receive two thirds of voters’ votes, plus one, to become the next Pope. When that happens, the white smoke will rise from the Sistine Chapel to indicate that a new Pope has been selected.

Fred Backus, Jennifer of Pinto and Anthony Salvaanto contributed to this report.

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