A cardinal that was forced by Pope Francis to resign from his Vatican job and was later convicted of embezzlement, would not be in the upcoming conclave to choose the next Pope.
76 -year -old Cardinal Angelo Basiu announced on Tuesday, “In the welfare of the church, which I have served and will continue working with loyalty and love, as well as to contribute to the Communion and Sarnity of the Conclave, I have always decided to tell about my contradiction, while not to enter my test.”
The BCIU was once an impressive Vatican Chief of Staff, according to the Associated Press, a prominent Pope contender. But he fell from grace in 2020 when Francis forced him to resign from his job as the head of the St.-Making Office of the Vatican and his rights as a cardinal allegations of financial misconduct regarding the purchase of a building in London.
Beciu refused to do wrong, but the case was prosecuted in the Vatican Criminal Court and convicted of Finance related charges in December 2023. He is appealing for sentence and 5 1/2-year jail sentence and is also included on Monday.
Cardinal Angelo BCIU congratulated the Cardinal Matteo Zuppi during a consistent ceremony to raise Roman Catholic Prelets to the rank of Cardinal in the Basilica of St. Peter in August 2022 in August 2022. (Reuters/Remo Casily)
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Italian Daily Domani stated last week that during the early pre-Kangkleve discussions, BCIU was presented with two letters signed by Francis, before he died saying that he should not participate in the Conclave.
The beCIU is below the age limit of 80 and is eligible to vote technically, but the official figures of the Vatican lishes it as a “non-script”.
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Angelo Besiu presided over a echoistic Liturji at St. John at Latharan Basilica in Rome in February 2017. (AP/Gregorio Borgia)
The Conclave is scheduled to begin next Wednesday, while Basiu’s appeal will appear in September.
The 82 -year -old, Al Salvador’s Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez, who is not eligible to vote in the Conclave, said on Tuesday that “I feel that the conclave will be small, two or three days, this is the feeling that we have inside the room,” according to the Reuters.
Pope Francis appears at the Central Lodge of St. Peter Basilica to bless Urbi et aurbi (Latin for Latin for the city and the world) at the end of the Easter Mass under the chairmanship of Cardinal Angelo Komstry at St. Peter Square in Vatican on Sunday, 20 April. (AP/Gregorio Borgia))
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The Vatican recently announced that “Systine Chapel would be closed to the public from Monday 28 April 2025 for the conclave requirements.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
