How long will it take the side?

Nobody knows how long will Conclave continue.

There is no official limit to time: until two -thirds of the 133 -year -old Catholic Catholics agree on the new Pope, they must continue to vote. Previous papal choices lasted from a few hours to nearly three years.

In the thirteenth century, the tradition of dismissal of the Cardro during the flavor began after the residents began in Viterbo, near Rome, where he was held in frustration due to a selection process that took place over nearly three years.

The local residents closed the cracked Cardinals at the Papuy Palace in Viterbo, removed the ceiling, and submitted them to the elements. They also cut their food classes until they chose. Pope Gregory X finally appeared as his choice after 33 months.

No wonder Gregory X was quick to reach fixed rules for GoodWhich comes from Latin “with the key”. It included reducing meals to one day a day if the Pope is not elected after three days, and only bread and water after another five days.

But some papal elections continued to continue. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, European Catholic monarchies used their influence over loyal Cardinals to form the result, which means that the sounds that were withdrawn sometimes for several months.

The differences became much shorter in the past two centuries, after the end of the Pope’s time force in 1870.

The last two of the Popes, Francis and Bandette 16, were elected within two days.

Cardinals have provided varying estimates for the period in which this range will continue. Some have said that the process may take longer than the last choices because the members of the large and varied Cardinals, and many of them have been appointed by Pope Francis in recent years, do not know each other well.

Cardinal Timothy M. Doulan from New York He said I think the flavor would be longer than the one that elected Francis. He mobilized 12 bundles of peanut butter, which is enough to eat three a day.

“I think it will be longer than the last time,” he said.

Others expect that the Cardinate will meet a well -known name And wrap it quickly.

“Everyone says that, but I do not know how to know,” said Cardinal Anders Arbeerlius of Sweden in an interview with him recently. Perhaps he said: “Everyone wants to go home as soon as possible.”

Josh Holder and Elizabeth Dias The reports contributed.