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Pope changes rules for electing successor
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| Last Edited | kal Jun 26, 2007 02:32pm |
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| Media | News Service - Australia News Limited |
| News Date | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | POPE Benedict has changed the rules to elect his successor, in a move meant to ensure that future pontiffs have broad support before white smoke rises again from the Sistine Chapel.
Benedict's “motu proprio”, a type of papal decree, partly reverses changes made by his predecessor John Paul II that had opened the possibility of electing a Pope with only a slight majority in the event of a deadlock.
From now on, the two-thirds majority needed at the start of voting in the conclave will be required until the very end - no matter how many rounds balloting end with “black smoke” above St Peter's Square.
The Vatican's chief spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, said the changes “would guarantee the widest possible consensus for the election of the new Pope”.
The 80-year-old Benedict also appeared to be remedying what some critics saw as an unfortunate consequence of the changes made by John Paul, who is on the fast-track to sainthood.
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