Vatican Condemns Gender Reassignment and Surrogacy as "Threats" to Human Dignity
The Vatican has issued a strong condemnation of gender reassignment surgery and surrogacy, labeling them as "serious threats" to human dignity
The papal conclave tasked with electing a successor to retired Pope Benedict XVI begins Tuesday in Vatican City.
On Tuesday afternoon, 115 cardinal-electors, all of them under 80, will walk to the Sistine Chapel to begin the secret election, after a public Mass in St. Peter's Basilica in the morning, according to reports of the BBC News.
The cardinals are to begin voting late on Tuesday afternoon, with no clear frontrunner in sight.
The cardinals will vote four tines daily until one candidate has won a 2/3 majority, or 77 votes.
Black smoke from a makeshift copper chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel will indicate that no candidate has been elected while white smoke will announce the election of the 266th Pope.
The 115 cardinals will be banned from communicating with the outside world and the Vatican has installed electronic counter-bugging measures to ensure secrecy.
The election was prompted by the surprise resignation of Benedict XVI announced on February 11.
85-year-old Pope Benedict resigned after eight years in office, citing ill health.
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The Kremlin has published a decree stating that Nikolai Patrushev, who was previously ousted as Vladimir Putin's security chief, will now serve as an aide to the Russian president
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