In 2025 Papal Conclave, some controversial issues are awaiting the new Pope

Vatican city – All Vatican employees who will participate in 2025 Conclave To choose behind the late Pope Francis – from cleaners to chefs and losers – divide the secrecy. The penalty for leaking information about the ancient Catholic Church rituals is the immediate expulsion.

133 Cardinal Voters assigned Election of the next Pope They took their right on Wednesday, inside the Sistine Church, such as The current ongoing began.

In the previous days, they were seen going and getting out of the meetings to discuss the advantages of men among their ranks – Which one of them It can be chosen next Kababa, the 1.4 billion Catholics leader.

Among the issues that distinguish Supposedly supposed For the job, there are some very controversial topics for Catholics, including exactly To what extent the church should open its doors? – If it is at all – for people like Andrea Robira, his wife and their three children.

“When Pope Francis died, I cried.”

A decade ago, Robira and his wife were fighting about whether they could raise their Catholic children. Then he got a phone call.

So I answered, and it was: “Mr. Robira, are you busy at the present time, because I see that you do not respond to my calls, and this is Pope Francis. ”

Remember his surprise as the late Pope asked whether he could save time to speak. He did, and Francis encouraged the couple to act like any other Catholic family. Robira said he was concerned that the next Pope may not be excited to welcome him and his family in the church.

“My personal fear is that our lives, our families, our rights, can be canceled …” he said.

Another major issue facing the next Pope is the role of women in the church. There was a fierce debate within the Catholic society for years about whether a woman should be allowed to become deacons, and in the end the priests. This section, even during the relatively progressive Pope Francis, remained firmly closed.

But Kate McClewe, Executive Director of the Women’s Coordination Conference, told CBS News: “In this question, women will not wait for a longer period.”

“There is certainly a turning point we face,” she said, expecting that if the Catholic Church does not offer new opportunities soon, I think women will vote with their feet – they will not go and participate in the life of the Church. “

When the new Pope is chosen Behind the closed doors of the results, his selected papal name will be adopted and then transferred to an anti -Cistin Church to put his papal white rose.

This appropriate room is called “La Stanza Delle Lacrime”, or, in English, “The Room of Deaths” – for all the Popes who have cried over the centuries like the risk of their call.

Chris Livay

Chris Livay is a foreign correspondent for CBS News in Rome.