conclave

[billcu1]

Are there 4 votes or what from each cardinal until one gets 2/3 of the vote and is Timothy Dolan a voting cardinal? What are general congregations?

 

[drafdog]

Go to Vatican.va and do a search for the list of Cardinals Electors. There is a separate list of Cardinals who are over 80 years of age and ineligible to vote.
The voting in the past has consisted of two rounds of ballots each morning and each afternoon until someone is elected. Each elector votes at each round of balloting.

Reb Levi

 

[Lisa1967]

Cardinal Dolan is under 80 and eligible to vote.

I don’t know what general congregations are.

 

[Glacies]

Here is an EWTN webpage for explaining the terms General and Particular Congregation.

By means of two instruments, the General and the Particular Congregation, the College of Cardinals governs the Holy See during a Papal Interregnum, within the limits of authority granted it by the Pope.

General Congregations meet in the Apostolic Palace and are Presided over by the Dean of the College, or in his absence by the Vice-Dean, or if one or the other is not an Elector, the senior Elector present. They are to meet daily and vote on the more serious business “in a manner that ensures secrecy”. In the first such General Congregation the Cardinals swear an oath to maintain secrecy in all matters concerning the election of the Pontiff.

 

[CatholicGeek1]

Are there 4 votes or what from each cardinal until one gets 2/3 of the vote and is Timothy Dolan a voting cardinal? What are general congregations?

Timothy Dolan is a cardinal and is under 80 so yes, he will be voting in the conclave.

 

[billcu1]

Here is an EWTN webpage for explaining the terms General and Particular Congregation.

So what kind of business do they do before a conclave? Lift excommunications or what?

 

[Glacies]

The 1996 Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis by Pope John Paul II further explains they arrange the matters of the previous Pope and prepare for the election of the next.

Chapter 2, 13:

1. In one of the Congregations immediately following, the Cardinals, on the basis of a prearranged agenda, shall take the more urgent decisions regarding the beginning of the election. In other words:

a) they shall fix the day, hour and manner in which the body of the deceased Pope shall be brought to the Vatican Basilica in order to be exposed for the homage of the faithful;

b) they shall make all necessary arrangements for the funeral rites of the deceased Pope, to be celebrated for nine consecutive days, determining when they are to begin, in such a way that burial will take place, except for special reasons, between the fourth and sixth day after death;

c) they shall see to it that the Commission, made up of the Cardinal Camerlengo and the Cardinals who had formerly held the offices of Secretary of State and President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, ensures that the rooms of the Domus Sanctae Marthae are made ready for the suitable lodging of the Cardinal electors, that rooms suitable for those persons men- tioned in No. 46 of the present Constitution are also made ready, and that all necessary arrangements are made to prepare the Sistine Chapel so that the election process can be carried out in a smooth and orderly manner and with maximum discretion, according to the provisions laid down in this Constitution;

d) they shall entrust to two ecclesiastics known for their sound doctrine, wisdom and moral authority the task of presenting to the Cardinals two well-prepared meditations on the problems facing the Church at the time and on the need for careful discernment in choosing the new Pope; at the same time, without prejudice to the provisions of No. 52 of this Constitution, they shall fix the day and the time when the first of these meditations is to be given;

e) they shall approve — at the proposal of the Administration of the Apostolic See or, within its competence, of the (name removed by moderator)ato of Vatican City State — expenses incurred from the death of the Pope until the election of his successor;

f) they shall read any documents left by the deceased Pope for the College of Cardinals;

g) they shall arrange for the destruction of the Fisherman’s Ring and of the lead seal with which Apostolic Letters are despatched;

h) they shall make provision for the assignment of rooms by lot to the Cardinal electors;

i) they shall set the day and hour of the beginning of the voting process.