The cardinals voting in their conclave this week are not choosing a successor to Pope Francis, but on the successor to Saint Peter, the apostle who was given the keys to the church by Jesus Christ, the Rev. Rob McKeon, of the Archdiocese of New York, told Newsmax Thursday.
“They’re focused on a successor to Saint Peter and all those [since] Peter, all the way up to this present day,” McKeon said in an interview airing on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “That’s part of why they’ve been spending so much time in prayer, because that has to continue to be renewed in their hearts and minds, guided by the Holy Spirit, that you are here to choose a successor of Saint Peter.”
The cardinals did not on Thursday, after a third round of voting, agree on the next leader of the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church. The next Pope must secure a necessary two-thirds majority, or 89 votes, of the 133 cardinals participating in the conclave.
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