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Do Papal Conclaves Need to Be So Secretive? by Matthew McDonald – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Matthew McDonald, National Catholic Register, May 21, 2025

Matthew McDonald Matthew McDonald is a staff reporter for The National Catholic Register and the editor of New Boston Post. He lives in Massachusetts.

 

Some rue the loss of information, but others say it’s necessary.

Matthew McDonaldWould you like to know how much Pope Leo XIV won by?

Or which cardinals supported him? Or who else got votes? Or how many? Or what coalitions formed? Or who played kingmaker?

Officially, you can’t, because it’s secret.

Cardinal-electors take an oath to maintain “absolute and perpetual secrecy” concerning “all matters directly or indirectly related” to the election of a pope, as required by Pope Benedict XVI’s February 2013 apostolic letter Normas Nonnullas, which tightened existing, already-tight secrecy rules.

The penalty for violating the oath is severe: “automatic (latae sententiae) excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See,” the document states — meaning only the pope can lift it. …

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