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YEREVAN, MARCH 11, ARMENPRESS: Cardinals will begin their conclave to elect the new leader of the Catholic Church in Rome on Tuesday afternoon, reports Armenpress, referring to Interfax.
A Vatican spokesman announced on Friday that cardinals will hold the private meeting in the Sistine Chapel after a morning mass in St. Peter’s Basilica.
Apart from eating and sleeping, they will not be allowed to leave the meeting until they have chosen who will succeed Pope Benedict XVI, who announced his surprise abdication on February 10.
When the time comes it will be Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran’s job as proto-deacon to announce ‘Habemus Papam!’ (‘We have a pope!’) from the balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square after the smoke has snaked up from the Sistine Chapel chimney.