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New pope to be elected by Thursday: Catholic
church
Tuesday March 12, 2013 02:32:16 PM,
IANS
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Kochi:
The Catholic Church in Kerala expects that the new pope would be
elected by Thursday morning, a church official said Tuesday.
Father Paul Thelekkat, spokesperson of the Syro Malabar Catholic
Church, told IANS that by around 2.30 p.m. IST Tuesday, the
process for electing the new pope would begin at the Pauline
Chapel in the Vatican.
The electors will then move to the Sistine Chapel at 4.30 p.m.
"Today (Tuesday) there will be one round of voting and tomorrow
there will be four rounds of voting. Either tomorrow or latest
Thursday morning our time, the next pope would be elected," said
Thelekkat.
The electoral college consists of 115 cardinals who can be elected
as the pope.
The election follows the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI last
month.
"There are 10 cardinals from Asia, of which five are from India
with two from Kerala," added Thelekkat.
In Kerala, the Catholic church consists of the Syro Malabar, Syro
Malankara and the Latin churches, of which the first two have one
cardinal each.
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