Thursday, May 8, 2025

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 13:45)
The Papacy on the World Stage– Why Do Evangelicals Care About the Papal Conclave? And Why Is It So Fascinating to the Media?

Part II (13:45 - 18:40)
Who Will Be the Next Pope? The Ideological and Theological Arguments Shaping the Future of the Roman Catholic Church (And More)

Part III (18:40 - 29:19)
50 Years Since the End of the Vietnam War: Even in a Broken War in a Broken World, Americans Owe Honor to Those Who Served Our Country in Vietnam

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, May 8, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:13.4	Well, it started yesterday. The elector cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are gathered there in the 16th Chapel at the Vatican in order to elect
0:22.8	the next pope. Now, from an evangelical perspective, there is a lot to consider here. First of all,
0:28.6	what exactly happened yesterday? Well, as you look at how the Roman Catholic Church chooses the next pontiff,
0:36.1	the next pope, it comes down to the electors,
0:39.1	the cardinal electors who will make the decision. The winning candidate who will become
0:43.3	Pope is the person usually from among the cardinals themselves who gains two-thirds of the
0:49.8	votes out of the 133 electors. Now there are a good many more than 133 cardinals, but going back to the
0:58.0	pontificate of Pope Paul the 6th, a change was made so that cardinals who are over the age of 80
1:04.9	cannot vote, so they are not elector cardinals. They remain cardinals. They've been a part of the
1:09.7	discussion over the last several days. They will be a part of the ceremonies concerning the installation, inauguration,
1:18.2	and enthronement of a new pope, but there are 133 who will be serving in the conclave and who
1:25.2	will be electing the new pope. They went into the Sistine Chapel
1:28.1	yesterday, and with a lot of ceremony, they began the process, and it required each of the
1:34.1	cardinal electors to make a pledge concerning, for one thing, the confidentiality and secrecy
1:40.7	of the entire process. But nonetheless, they paraded in and, of course, in all of their
1:47.1	cardinal regalia, and with all the music and the pipe organ in the background, and it was begun with
1:54.0	all the formalities of the selection of a pope, and it was meant to be seen. That's very important.
2:00.6	It was meant to be seen. And the Cardinals
2:03.6	basically put themselves on display as they went into the Sistine Chapel. Now, we associate conclaves,
2:10.7	and by the way, that word goes back to the fact that the Cardinals are locked in the room.
2:15.5	But we are accustomed to conclades being held there in the
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