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regnaD kciN

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3. Not due to age...

Reply to underpants (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 23, 2025, 02:58 PM

Apr 23

…as they can still show up at the conclave and debate the choices, but not vote.

It was a change made sometime in the last half-century, because there were a large bloc of elderly, long-retired cardinals, most with pre-Vatican II views, that had the power to swing the result.

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Catholic trump. Scrivener7 Apr 23 #1

I didn't know there's an age limit. Due to travel? underpants Apr 23 #2

Not due to age... regnaD kciN Apr 23 #3

Ah. Thanks. underpants Apr 23 #4