KJ Jacob | Will the next pope follow the lines of Francis? Cardinals gather today

The historic Sistine Church will hold a meeting of Cardinals on Wednesday, May 7 to elect the new bishop of Rome, who will serve as the successor of Pope Francis and head of the Roman Catholic Church. It is estimated that 133 of the 135 cardinals who are eligible to vote in the pope election will attend the meeting. The other 117 major 80-year-olds and their qualifications will not be part of the exercise, which will eventually lead to the white smoke leaching from the chimney of the church and the Latin proclaimed by the Cardinal: “Habemus papam” (we have a pope).
The election of the pope is a complicated process. There is indeed an election list, but there is no list of candidates in the Pope election. Voters will gather in Governor Michelangelo's 15th-century church after the current pope passes, and have a possible and potential candidate idea. There is no regulation that the base of the Pope can only be selected. Pastors who are eligible for bishops for five years can be elected under the Canon law that ruled the Pope's election. The last person elected the Pope from outside the Cardinal College was Urban VI in 1378.
Voters will begin voting on the first day of the meeting. There are four polls every day: twice in the morning and twice in the evening. If the 34th poll does not have a conclusion, the number of candidates will be reduced to two, and a runoff poll will be conducted until two-thirds of the two get the votes. After each failed poll, the chimney emits black smoke, white smoke after the election. It will announce after seeking the consent of the elected person.
Technically, the Pope's choice had an impact outside the 110-acre Vatican country, as he directly or indirectly touched the lives of millions of people, even outside the Catholic church. The cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires is said to be a favorite of John Paul II, who died in 2005. However, Vatican insider and close assistant to the Polish Pope, although he chose Pollies of John of the Prolies the Prolies of the Pohries of the Pohlies of the Pohlies of the Pohries of the Pohries of the Pohries of the Pohniper in the fourth poll, he chose Polish Pope's intimacy under the fourth rule. Pope Francis' election was also a simple process. He is a popular figure in his modest role and progressive thinking, and he was elected in the fifth poll.
This time there are also Papabies, including the “possible” pope, including the Philippines' Luis Antonio Tagle, known as the “Asian Francis”.
But every news about Papabil also carries an Italian motto: “Leave as the pope, as the cardinal.”
This powerful Catholic church of 1.1 billion is considered a miracle of administration, with only two layers of authority – the bishops from all corners and corners of the world are the first, and the second layer consists of only one person: the Pope. Bishops, bishops and the main archbishops of the local church are all part of the hierarchy, but have little independent power but dominance over the Roman church.
The Pope of John XXIII (1958-1963) is considered a turning point in modern church history, and it opened the church to the world. It almost abandoned the conservative theory of salvation, began to talk to other beliefs, and introduced liturgical changes, thus giving the local church more say. Paul VI, who inherited John XXIII, became the first modern pope to travel outside Rome and interact with the country and all faiths, and he became the process. Pope Paul Vi visited India in 1964 on many of his trips around the world. Pope John Paul III inherited Pope Paul VIII, the shortest 33 days before his sudden death in 1978. The affinity with the Pope gave his successor Karol Józef Wojtyła a lasting impression in his homeland Poland overthrew the communist dictatorship. However, John Paul II was considered a conservative in the affairs of faith, but during his 27-year reign between 1978 and 2005, he visited 129 countries, including India, and he had a fierce conversation with different beliefs.
Pope Benedict XVI, who inherited John Paul II, limited himself to religious and theological affairs and became the first pope to give up his post in modern times, his successor Francis changed the character of the church by redefining the template to analyze its role in the world. Human beings become the only criterion that the church believes is human. Faith, color, status, sexual orientation, and even the past has little to do with the lives of Pope Francis meeting and touching them. His three encyclopedias jointly released attempt to address the world’s concerns in an all-round way, the last one, “Fratelli Tutti,” all brothers positioned him as the final champion of the fraternity. “No one can face life in isolation,” he said in the Encyclopedia, calling on people to “dream, as a family of human beings,” in which we are “brothers and sisters.”
Only time can tell whether his successor, the Pastor of Christ on Earth, would remain from Pope Francis.