Keys, Oaths, and Smoke: How a Pope Is Chosen
History of the Papacy Podcast
History of the Papacy
4.4 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The Sistine Chapel is sealed, the Cardinals sworn to secrecy, and the world is watching. As the 2025 Papal Conclave begins, we take you behind the locked doors to uncover the rules, rituals, and real power dynamics of electing the next pope.
Discover the history of the Apostolic Constitution, the role of the Camerlengo, and the intense procedures that guarantee secrecy and unity — all rooted in centuries of tradition.
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| 0:29.6 | and download it today. Welcome back to the history of the papacy podcast, a podcast about the popes of Rome and Christian church. |
| 0:49.4 | Prepare yourself to step behind the ropes and leave the official tour of the story of the |
| 0:54.5 | popes and Christianity. |
| 0:57.0 | I am your host, Steve Guara, and I thank you for joining me on this journey. |
| 1:15.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to the History of the Papacy podcast. |
| 1:17.7 | I am, of course, your host, Steve. |
| 1:25.7 | Today I'm jumping into my first episode on this current papal conclave. |
| 1:30.3 | I have a couple of episodes coming up as retrospectives on the papacy of Pope Francis and Pope Francis's background. I think it's worth at least to give the |
| 1:37.5 | man some do. He was the Pope for the entirety of the history of the papacy podcast. |
| 1:46.5 | So let's give him a little due. |
| 1:50.6 | And I'll be joined with host of the popular podcast. |
| 1:51.8 | Greg Gassman. |
| 1:56.3 | Greg really ran the ball on this whole Pope Francis mini series. |
| 2:03.9 | Definitely tune into him because he's going to be giving a lot of background on the Cardinals. He even has a segment of his podcast called Cardinal Numbers where he will get into all of the details of all of the Cardinals and rank them in a Rex factor type situation. |
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