Pope Francis had been working on a wheelchair for a long time. Recently, he went on a journey of about thirty thousand kilometers from Vatican City. From then on, it started to talk whether the Pope would be able to stay fit for so many responsibilities at this age. Now he has been in the hospital for about 10 days. Meanwhile, the new Pope’s face and country started speculating. Can anyone reach Vatican this time also from Asia or Africa?
Broken tradition with Pope Francis
The current Pope is the first South American Pope as well as the first Vatican leader associated with the Jesuit community. Pope, born in Argentina, is considered quite liberal from the rest. He supported gay people apart from the thinking of the Catholic Church. He continued to speak continuously against the child sexual abuse in churches.
What happens when the pope dies
Doctors in the hospital are not enough to say, after the death of the Pope, many rules are to be raised in the Vatican. For example, the Church’s Treasurer (Camelango) will call the Pope’s baptism intermittently intermittently. If no response comes, the Pope is officially considered dead. After this, the apartment of the Pope is sealed and the body is kept for the last darshan.
This is how the choice of new pope is selected
Camelango calls a meeting, in which all cardinals under the age of 80 are deposited. All this process is done in a very intelligence manner and the oath of secret is also administered by the voting cardinals. They are eliminated contact with the outside world so that there is no interference in the election. Cardinals vote and the one who gets a two-thirds majority gets the status of Pope. Cardinal chapel i.e. the building where voting is going on, black smoke continues to come out from there during voting, which turns into white smoke after the election. This is the official announcement that the new Pope has been selected.
Can there be non-wight pope
This time the election for the Pope will include a total of 138 cardinals, out of which 4 are Indians. In the last few years, it also started to arise that why no person from Asia or Africa, including India, can get the highest position of Rome? In both places, the population that believes in Catholicism is the highest in the world. That too when China is left in the calculation. It was 1.4 billion in the year 2022. At the same time, the population in Europe or America is not only low, but people are also getting away from religion.
The Pope of color has been fragrant since almost a decade. However, this does not seem possible for many reasons at the moment. Cardinals only vote for the Pope. These cardinals are from different parts of the world. It also has the most people from Europe. In such a situation, the pan of Europe can obviously be heavy. There are only 4 cardinals from India. The same situation is with Africa. Since voting decides the new Pope, it is not possible until the cardinals increase from the rest of the countries.
One of the reasons is that the scope of Cardinals of Asia or Africa is limited if compared to Europe or America. Along with personality in becoming a pope, the international base also matters somewhere.
Can Pope also affect international issues
Yes. Since they are the Supreme Leaders of the Catholic Church, they are going to listen and listen to them all over the world. This is the reason that the Pope’s saying has an impact on the global level. In both social and political matters, the Pope’s thinking matters. Leaders of many countries keep reaching to meet the Pope and also take advice from them in different cases. Vatican has also been in the role of an intermediary in many cases for this reason. This is also a reason that powerful countries want Pope from their own areas, even if they do not directly interfere in elections.
Why Asia or Africa cardinals are low
Its selections are pope on the basis of merit. The current Pope is a non-European leader before the 8th century. Cardinals also increased outside Europe during his tenure, but there are still most people from Europe. Vatican’s headquarters are in Rome, due to which Europe dominated here.
It is to be estimated that Asia and Africa have more Catholics than Europe and they should get more cardinals so that their countries can have the correct representation. However, this issue was slightly complicated. The Vatican does not count China’s Catholics. Actually, there is a government control over religion in China and it does not accept the Pope. At the same time, to avoid government intervention, secret churches are also running here, which are directly related to the Vatican and Rome is only able to count them. Apart from this, there is also a diplomatic issue between China and the Vatican. The Vatican is the only European country in the world that recognizes Taiwan, on which China has always been angry.