Ahead of the conclave, the Vatican staff is to be sworn to secrecy under threat of excommunication

Ahead of the conclave, Vatican staff vow secrecy under threat of excommunication

All Vatican personnel involved in supporting the upcoming papal conclave must take an oath of secrecy — under penalty of automatic excommunication. The ceremony on Monday, mandated by Vatican law and revised by Pope Benedict XVI, includes clerics and lay…

Ahead of the conclave, Vatican staff take a vow of secrecy under threat of excommunication

The oath, which explicitly forbids recording or disclosing anything from within the conclave, underscores the Church's insistence on confidentiality.

The Vatican Prepares to Hold the Conclave in the Sistine Chapel - teleSUR English

Workers have installed two stoves and a chimney through which 133 cardinals will send up white smoke. On Monday, the Vatican press office reported that final preparations are underway in the Sistine Chapel for the conclave set to begin on May 7. RELATED: The Conclave To Begin on May 7: Vatican Spokesman Bruni Workers have installed two stoves and a chimney through which 133 cardinals will send up white smoke, signaling that they have elected a s…

Ahead of the conclave, Vatican staff must vow secrecy under threat of excommunication

By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators. All the support staff for the cardinals who will elect the successor to Pope Francis must take an oath of secrecy ahead of the conclave that’s starting on Wednesday. The punishment for breaking the oath? Automatic excommunication. In this image taken on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, and made available Saturday, May 3, 2…

Ahead of the conclave, the Vatican staff is to be sworn to secrecy under threat of excommunication

Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators.All the support staff for the cardinals who will elect the successor to Pope Francis must take an oath of secrecy ahead of the conclave that’s starting on Wednesday.

Final preparations, discussions underway before conclave begins - Catholic Review

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As members of the College of Cardinals met May 5, all 133 cardinals who plan to enter the conclave to elect a new pope had arrived in Rome, the Vatican press office said. However, only 132 of them participated in the morning general congregation, a meeting that gives all the cardinals — those under the age of 80 and eligible to enter a conclave as well as those over 80 — a chance to discuss priorities, challenges facing the …