The Vatican was busy with last-minute arrangements on Tuesday to get ready for the conclave to elect the next pope.
Cardinals wrapped up their pre-conclave meetings Tuesday, trying to identify a possible new pope who could follow Pope Francis and make the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church credible and relevant today, especially to young people.
Cardinals wrapped up their pre-conclave meetings Tuesday, trying to identify a possible new pope who could follow Pope Francis and make the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church credible and relevant today, especially to young people.
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00:00The Vatican is busy with last-minute arrangements to get ready for the conclave to elect the
00:08next pope, which starts tomorrow, Wednesday afternoon.
00:13This morning, the cardinals met for the last time for one of their congregations, it was
00:17the 12th of those such meetings, to discuss the problems facing the 1.4 billion strong
00:23Catholic Church.
00:24Over the course of these meetings, there have been over 200 speeches by cardinals, and it's
00:29been a good chance for them to get to know each other as they search for the ideal candidate
00:34for the next pope.
00:36At the end of the meeting today, a Vatican employee came and destroyed the Fisherman's Ring.
00:41The Fisherman's Ring is something that has been a tradition going back centuries for popes.
00:45The popes wear the Fisherman's Ring, and once, centuries ago, they used it to seal papal documents
00:51by sticking it in red wax and then putting it at the end of a document.
00:56Today, this afternoon, the cardinals will be able to go into the Santa Marta residence
01:01inside the Vatican walls for the first time.
01:04They will be staying there throughout the conclave, and the Vatican has set up a jamming system,
01:09so they will not have access to Internet or cell phones, so that the conclave will be conducted
01:14in complete secrecy.
01:17The only way we will know of the election of a pope is when we see white smoke coming out
01:22of the chimney on top of the Sistine Chapel behind me.
01:26The second floor is open.