Now that Pope Benedict has resigned, a new Pope is being elected.
The procedure is as follows.
As usual it is not the spirit of Religion or Spirituality is the last qualification.
This will be evident as you go through the following .
Political power, political interference of world powers,Regional/racial considerations,personal influence lobbying will put a political election into shame.
The Papal Election:
“The pope was originally chosen by those senior clergymen resident in and near Rome. In 1059 the electorate was restricted to the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, and the individual votes of all Cardinal Electors were made equal in 1179. Pope Urban VI, elected 1378, was the last pope who was not already a cardinal at his election. Canon law requires that if a layman or non-bishop is elected, he receives episcopal consecration from the Dean of the College of Cardinals before assuming the Pontificate. Under present canon law, the pope is elected by the cardinal electors, comprising those cardinals who are under the age of 80.
The Second Council of Lyons was convened on 7 May 1274, to regulate the election of the pope. This Council decreed that the cardinal electors must meet within ten days of the pope’s death, and that they must remain in seclusion until a pope has been elected; this was prompted by the three-yearSede Vacante following the death of Pope Clement IV in 1268. By the mid-16th century, the electoral process had evolved into its present form, allowing for variation in the time between the death of the pope and the meeting of the cardinal electors.
Traditionally, the vote was conducted by acclamation, by selection (by committee), or by plenary vote. Acclamation was the simplest procedure, consisting entirely of a voice vote, and was last used in 1621. Pope John Paul II abolished vote by acclamation and by selection by committee, and henceforth election will be by full vote by ballot of the Sacred College of Cardinals.
“Under the terms of Pope Paul VI‘s motu proprio Ingravescentem Aetatem, cardinals who had reached the age of 80 before the conclave opened had no vote in papal elections. The current rules for the election of the Roman Pontiff, those in Pope John Paul II‘s Universi Dominici Gregis of 22 February 1996, state that cardinals who have reached the age of 80 before the day the see becomes vacant do not have a vote.[3]
Choosing The Pope.
‘Although the canonical qualifications required of candidates for episcopacy, indicated in canon 378 of the Code of Canon Law, leave a broad field open to the cardinals, they have in fact for over six centuries consistently elected one of their own number to be Bishop of Rome. The last time they chose someone who was not a cardinal was at the 1378 election of Pope Urban VI. However, the conclave rules specify the procedures to be followed, should someone residing outside Vatican City or not yet a bishop be elected.”
Members of The College of Cardinals.
“The following is the list of all living Cardinals as of 8 February 2013. Cardinals are shown in order of precedence, based on seniority by date of appointment. Paulo Evaristo Arns is the most senior member of the College by length of service (the Protopriest); he is the last surviving from the 1973 consistory. Angelo Sodano, however, has the highest precedence as a Cardinal Bishop as Dean of the College of Cardinals.
Cardinals who have reached the age of 80 are indicated with an asterisk (*). Lubomyr Husar will be the next Cardinal to lose, on 26 February 2013, his right to participate in a conclave. The oldest living Cardinal is currently Ersilio Tonini. There are now a total of 209 Cardinals, of whom 118 are aged under 80. Of the voting-age cardinals, 51 were appointed by Pope John Paul II, and 67 by Pope Benedict XVI.
All but thirteen of the Cardinals alive at the death of Pope John Paul II were appointed by him. Three of those thirteen were under 80 years old as of the day of John Paul II’s death. One of those three, Joseph Ratzinger, was elected Pope in the resulting conclave and took the name Benedict XVI, another one (Jaime Sin) did not attend that conclave for health reasons and died shortly afterwards, and the third, William Wakefield Baum, turned 80 on 21 November 2006.
Most of the Cardinals are from the Latin Church; those who are from the Eastern Catholic Churches have their church explicitly indicated.
Within the College of Cardinals, there are three categories, ranked Cardinal Bishops, then Cardinal Priests, and finally Cardinal Deacons, within each category the Cardinals are ranked by seniority of appointment.”.
2013 Cardinals who will elect The Pope.
Cardinal electors from every region of the world will gather to choose the man to succeed Pope Benedict XV.
Follow the Link for List of Cardinals who elect The Pope 2013 and their Photos.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/02/17/world/europe/pope-cardinals.html?ref=world.
It is suspected that Pope Benedict resigned because of Huntington Disease.
This along with the metal pressures being built up by the scams of Pedophile Priests and Gay Issues hastened his decision to abdicate as a Pope in Seven Centuries .
http://ramanisblog.in/2013/03/11/pope-benedict-resigned-huntingtons-disease/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_Cardinals
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