SEDE VACANTE
First Congregation of the College of Cardinals
The Cardinals of
the Church are meeting today in the first of the General Congregations which
occur to prepare for the Conclave. The Cardinals are pictured here arriving at
the Paul VI Hall. The General Congregations include the participation of not
only the Cardinal-electors, who are under 80 and can vote in the Conclave, but
also Cardinals who are over 80 years of age.
Among the first to arrive in
the morning, there were the Dean Angelo
Sodano, Tarcisio Bertone, Camillo Ruini, Giuseppe Betori, Angelo Bagnasco,
Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Claudio Hummes, Vinko Puljic, Reinhard Marx, Walter
Kasper, Kurt Koch, Claudio Caffarra.
Some cardinals came
individually, others in small groups. Cardinal Ruini has been seen in dialogue with Giuseppe Betori, his former
secretary general of the CEI. Arriving together, conversing with each other,
even the Germans Marx and Kasper, as well as the former Archbishop of Milan
Dionigi Tettamanzi with Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow, the former
private secretary of Pope John Paul II.
The Americans arrived compactly,
on board a large MPV. In two separate groups, however, the Brazilians. No one
on their arrival, whilst welcoming from afar media operators, issued special
statements.
The second General
Congregation will be this afternoon. It was announced a few days ago that not
all of the Cardinal-electors have arrived in Rome, and their presence is
necessary for the start of the Conclave.
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