Breaking bread, state of the race, and excommunication communication

Breaking bread, state of the race, and excommunication communication

Happy Friday, friends,It’s high season here in Rome in the run-up to the conclave. These days, it feels like if you open a cupboard door almost anywhere on this side of the river, two people plotting will fall out.It’s not always a terribly edifying spectacle, I grant you.In a minute, we are going to have some real talk about the state of the candidates — who seems to be trending up and down, and why. Let’s not kid ourselves, the race to become …

In the run-up to the papal conclave there have been several curious situations, which have had cardinals as protagonists. In...

The cardinals are already in Rome to elect the next Pope in the conclave that will begin on Wednesday, May 7. From that day, the cardinals will lock themselves in the Sistine Chapel to vote the next Supreme Pontiff without any communication with the outside, in the framework of an event that can take hours or days.After meeting to dismiss Francis and while waiting for the particular date, they are all staying in the Santa Marta House, which knew…

The meetings before the Conclave, scheduled for May 7, 2025, already leave the first anecdotes. In the middle of the informal meetings highlights the story of a cardinal who consumed the products of the minibar thinking they were free, and then was surprised with the account. The Cardenal entry of the Conclave consumed the minibar thinking it was free was first published in Teleamazonas.

It was not the Sistine Chapel, nor a leak of information that shook the corridors of the Vatican in the run-up to the conclave. It was the minibar. More precisely, a completely empty minibar after a night of drinking among cardinals, courtesy, by mistake, of a foreign colleague who believed that, at Casa Santa Marta, even whiskey was blessed... and free. The story was revealed by Archbishop emeritus Anselmo Guido Pecora, 79, to the newspaper Cor…