Much of the process to select a successor for Pope Francis has been underway for days, as the cardinals have been in Rome since his funeral, Father Rob McKeon, the pastor at Saint Catherine of Alexandria Parish in the Archdiocese of New York, told Newsmax Sunday.
“The formal process, called the conclave, will begin on Wednesday, where they gather together,” McKeon said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend. “The word conclave means with the key from Latin, so they, in a sense, get locked away. We would call it sequestered, you know, like a jury gets sequestered in the Vatican, and then they technically meet together starting Wednesday in the Sistine Chapel.”
The meetings will consist of two voting sessions in the morning and two in the afternoon, and the cardinals could reach their decision quickly, or it could take a number of days, he added.
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