In picking the next pope, Catholic population doesn’t equal power.
Conclave, a secretive meeting by roughly 120 eligible voters
from all over the world, is a place where a new pope is elected. The number of
those voters, namely cardinals who wear red hats to show their faith to God,
don’t seem to represent the regional population of the religion equally, or in
other words, they aren’t proportionally selected by the number of the
population of nearly 1.2 billion. You don’t need a computer or even a calculator
to figure out how many of the 1.2 billion total believers in the world each
cardinal should represent, if it’s equally allocated.
However, history and origin of the religion seem to supersede
math and reality when it comes to select a person for this most influential
position.
Enjoy reading and learning about this 1,000-year-old selection
process of a religious leader.
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