(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 2 – Four of the 133 cardinal electors who will pick Pope Francis’s successor in a conclave starting Wednesday have not yet arrived in Rome, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said Friday.
He stressed that there are still 133 who will enter the Sistine Chapel because the announced absences are only those of the two cardinals who have manifested health problems: the Spaniard Antonio Canizares Llovera and John Njue of Kenya.
The mystery of the latter’s age remains, as is the case for the cardinal of Burkina Faso Philippe Ouedraogo.
Their birth dates were recently corrected in the papal yearbook.
In practice, they have been ‘rejuvenated’ and for this reason they are among the electors, because according to the birth dates they had previously communicated, to date they would be over eighty and therefore not electors. Njue however will not come because he is ill.
But Ouedraogo remains entitled to enter the Sistine Chapel.
“Not all countries enjoy the same quality of registry offices,” explained the director of the Vatican press office, Bruni, and the initial declarations on the date of birth “have been modified with a valid document.” (ANSA).
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He stressed that there are still 133 who will enter the Sistine Chapel because the announced absences are only those of the two cardinals who have manifested health problems: the Spaniard Antonio Canizares Llovera and John Njue of Kenya.
The mystery of the latter’s age remains, as is the case for the cardinal of Burkina Faso Philippe Ouedraogo.
Their birth dates were recently corrected in the papal yearbook.
In practice, they have been ‘rejuvenated’ and for this reason they are among the electors, because according to the birth dates they had previously communicated, to date they would be over eighty and therefore not electors. Njue however will not come because he is ill.
But Ouedraogo remains entitled to enter the Sistine Chapel.
“Not all countries enjoy the same quality of registry offices,” explained the director of the Vatican press office, Bruni, and the initial declarations on the date of birth “have been modified with a valid document.” (ANSA).
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