Groundbreaking: The Last Warning to the Pope’s Electors

VATICAN CITY
Chiesa

The official bulletin of the Holy See has lifted the secrecy from the meditation dictated to the cardinals at the beginning of the last conclave, with the doors already closed. Here are the essential passages

by Sandro Magister

ROME, August 13, 2013 – The Holy See has an official bulletin entitled “Acta Apostolicae Sedis.” It is written in Latin, while the documents reproduced there are in the original languages. Its issues can be read on the Vatican website beginning with that of 1909:

> Acta Apostolicae Sedis

Since 2003 it has been issued in monthly booklets with the pages numbered starting in January. The latest booklet taken to press is also the first of Francis’s pontificate:

> Acta Apostolicae Sedis, 5 aprilis – 3 Maii 2013

It contains among other things the proceedings of the conclave that on March 13, 2013 elected pope Jorge…