{"id":48730,"date":"2025-05-08T01:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T05:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/how-long-will-the-conclave-take\/08\/05\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T01:48:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T05:48:46","slug":"how-long-will-the-conclave-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/how-long-will-the-conclave-take\/08\/05\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long Will the Conclave Take?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">No one knows how long the conclave will last.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There is no formal time limit: until two-thirds of the 133 voting Roman Catholic cardinals agree on a new pope, they must continue to vote. Past papal selections have lasted from just a few hours to nearly three years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the 13th century, the tradition of sequestering the cardinals during the conclave started after residents in Viterbo, near Rome, where it was being held, grew frustrated with a selection process that dragged on almost three years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Locals locked the squabbling cardinals in the papal palace in Viterbo and had the roof removed, subjecting them to the elements. They also cut down their food rations until they made a selection. Pope Gregory X finally emerged as their choice after 33 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It\u2019s no wonder that Gregory X scrambled to come up with fixed rules for the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/pope-death-election-words-definition.html#link-4ed190b8\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">conclave<\/a>, which comes from the Latin \u201cwith key.\u201d They included reducing meals to one a day if a pope was not elected after three days, and to only bread and water after five more days. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But some papal elections continued to drag on. In the 17th and 18th centuries, European Catholic monarchies used their influence over loyal cardinals to shape the outcome, meaning that votes sometimes dragged on for months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Conclaves have become considerably shorter in the past two centuries, after the end of the pope\u2019s temporal power in 1870.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The last two popes, Francis and Benedict XVI, were each elected within two days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Cardinals provided varying estimates of how long this conclave would last. Some said the process may take longer than recent selections because the members of the large and diverse College of Cardinals, many of them appointed by Pope Francis in recent years, don\u2019t know each other well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York said he thought the conclave would be longer than the one that elected Pope Francis, which took two days. He has packed 12 packets of peanut butter, and enough to eat three a day. \u201cSo you figure that out,\u201d he said on the math.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think it\u2019ll be longer than last time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Others predict the cardinals will converge on a well-known name<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>and wrap it up fast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEveryone says that, but I don\u2019t know how they know,\u201d Cardinal Anders Arborelius of Sweden said in a recent interview. Maybe, he said, \u201cEveryone wants to get home as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Josh Holder<!-- --> and <!-- -->Elizabeth Dias<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/08\/world\/europe\/pope-conclave-how-long.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one knows how long the conclave will last. 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