Cardinals who send tweets during the forthcoming conclave to
elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI will face sanctions and even
excommunication and will not be allowed mobiles, a Vatican official said on
Friday.
Mons. Juan Ignacio Arrieta, secretary to the Vatican legal body the
Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, said cardinals' mobiles would be
confiscated before they entered the conclave and any tweets from inside the
Conclave "would incur very serious sanctions."
"More immediate excommunications are foreseen under the rules that govern
the election of a new pope than in the whole of canon law," he said.
The conclave to elect a new pope will take place in March, after
85-year-old Benedict abdicates on 28 February owing to old age and frailty.
The number of cardinals currently expected to take part in the conclave
are 116 after the Vatican announced on Friday that Indonesia's Riyadi
Darmaatmadja, the 78-year-old emeritus archbishop of Jakarta was too unwell to
attend.
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Feb. 22, 2013
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