{"id":24139,"date":"2025-05-08T05:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T05:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/whats-at-stake-in-the-conclave-the-keys-of-the-kingdom-of-heaven\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T05:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T05:26:08","slug":"whats-at-stake-in-the-conclave-the-keys-of-the-kingdom-of-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/whats-at-stake-in-the-conclave-the-keys-of-the-kingdom-of-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200b\u200bWhat\u2019s at Stake in the Conclave? The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The fresco is on the north wall of the Sistine Chapel, up and to the right as the cardinals enter to choose their successor. It depicts a scene from the life of Jesus, as told in the Gospel of Matthew, painted by the Italian Renaissance artist Pietro Perugino in the 15th century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Jesus, robed in blue, stands just left of center with his disciples in an open piazza, a temple in the background. Just right of center kneels his disciple Peter, reaching up to take what Jesus is handing him, the object of ultimate importance, signified by its placement at the exact center of the painting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The keys of the kingdom of heaven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven,\u201d Jesus tells Peter in the Gospel story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With those words, one of the most enduring symbols in Christendom, the keys of St. Peter, was created, and the story of the papacy was born.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church gathered for the conclave on Wednesday, they were more than simply casting votes for the Vatican\u2019s next head of state. They were choosing the 267th successor of St. Peter, who, as ecclesiastical tradition teaches, was chosen by Jesus to be the first leader of the church.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPeople, especially now, they say, \u2018Well, just who is the pope? Is he like the C.E.O., or is he like the board chairman?\u2019\u201d Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York said in an interview at Kennedy Airport, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/23\/us\/cardinal-dolan-pope-francis-conclave.html\" title=\"\">before boarding his flight to Rome<\/a> after Pope Francis died. \u201cNo. He is a successor of St. Peter, and he\u2019s the Bishop of Rome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Choosing a pope is a political process, but also a deeply theological one. The symbolic passing of the keys is one of the oldest rituals in Christianity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The image of two crossed keys is an ancient sign of papal authority. At the Vatican, they are omnipresent. They are crossed in the Holy See\u2019s coat of arms, one gold and one silver. They are on the special-edition Vatican postage stamp, currently marked \u201cSede Vacante MMXXV,\u201d issued exclusively for the period between Pope Francis\u2019 death and his successor\u2019s election, and currently so popular they are limited to one sheet per customer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Inside St. Peter\u2019s Basilica, a bronze statue of St. Peter holds the keys in his left hand, and outside in the square, a giant statue of St. Peter grips them in his right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Just as Jesus changed Peter\u2019s name from Simon, the new pope changes his name, and becomes almost a new person in the eyes of the church, Cardinal Dolan explained. The one with the keys has the power that Jesus had, to preserve and pass on the integrity of the faith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe successor of Peter has no armies to set, no arms to sell, no currency to float, no trade, no tariffs to impose,\u201d Cardinal Dolan said. \u201cBut yet he has this awesome moral authority, and spiritual authority, that you can see the world craves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Today, the office of the pope is widely perceived to be one of moral authority. But the papacy, and the meaning of the keys, changed through the centuries as the church\u2019s political and theological might shifted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In early Christianity, the keys were largely a theological symbol of forgiveness, and that in giving Peter the keys, Jesus was offering salvation to people. Metaphorically, they unlocked the gates of heaven and everlasting life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Images of Peter with the keys do not appear before the 4th century, when Constantine, the Roman Emperor, converted to Christianity, and the faith became legal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe emphasis is emerging at this time on the status of Peter as a direct recipient of Christ\u2019s authority, and that is occurring at a time when the church is establishing itself as a religion in the empire,\u201d said Felicity Harley-McGowan, an art history lecturer at Yale Divinity School. \u201cIn Rome, that imagery takes on particular significance in terms of articulating, ultimately, the authority of the church.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The first known image of Christ handing the keys to Peter is in Rome, tucked down a quiet path behind a school, in the tomb of Constantine\u2019s daughter, who died in the 4th century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Inside, the tomb, known as the Mausoleo di Santa Costanza, is cool and dark, away from the blazing Roman sun. In an apse, near the site of the sarcophagus, is a sparkling mosaic of Jesus in reddish and gold robes sitting atop the orb of the world. In his right hand, he gives Peter a key.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Coumba Sall, a tour guide, was there practicing to add the site to her route. She pointed up to the motifs of grapes and Roman winemakers around the apse, noting that for Christians, wine is a reminder of the Eucharist. Jesus, she said, was robed in imperial colors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThese mosaics are showing us the transition from pagan to Christianity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Egypt, at the ancient Orthodox monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai is an icon of Peter holding the keys from the 6th century, which was used in devotional practices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The keys are heavy \u2014 they are made of metal \u2014 but even so they are less about earthly power and submission than about Christian devotion, said Father Gabriel Torretta, an assistant professor of theology at Providence College and a Dominican priest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is Christian hope you are looking at,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause Peter has the keys, you are looking at hope, there\u2019s forgiveness of sins, and I can be united with Jesus Christ in eternal life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During the medieval period, papal authority became more concrete as the pope obtained sovereignty over territory, or papal states. By some church accounts, the pope received actual keys of conquered cities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPeople see the power of this and are enacting a totally different mode, where now it is political and military,\u201d Father Torretta said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By the Renaissance, when Perugino created his fresco in the Sistine Chapel, more visuals emerge not just of Jesus and Peter, but of them with all the other disciples. Art scholars say this was a sign that the church was beginning to emphasize papal succession in their social and political environment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Pope Francis explained his own understanding of the keys last June, as he preached the Gospel text from the window overlooking St. Peter\u2019s Square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They represent \u201cthe ministry of authority that Jesus entrusted to him in the service of all the Church,\u201d he said, carefully describing how to interpret \u201cauthority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAuthority is a service,\u201d he said, \u201cand authority that is not service is dictatorship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It is noteworthy that Pope Francis, the person at the top of the church\u2019s power structure, was concerned about the moral limits of that authority, explained Molly Farneth, an associate professor of religion at Haverford College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think that Francis recognized this distinction and sought to be a good and virtuous leader,\u201d she said, \u201cand also sought to prevent whoever occupied the role of the pope from occupying it in a way that was dominating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Farneth teaches a course on the politics of ritual, and is seeing these politics play out in real time as one papacy ends and another is set to begin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cTo think of a key being handed off as the symbol of this transition of power, I think, is interesting, and raises all these questions,\u201d she said, like will the person occupying the office use the keys to open the door so more people can enter? Will they use it to regulate border crossings? \u201cThe person who holds the key has a lot of power over who is in the community,\u201d she said, \u201cand who is out of the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">These questions \u2014 and the earthly and heavenly power they hold \u2014 are at the heart of the cardinals\u2019 decision in the days ahead, as they choose St. Peter\u2019s 267th successor. And it is not only the Perugino fresco and the Gospel of Matthew text that remind them of the import of what they are doing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Their very ritual involves a conclave, which takes place in the secrecy of the Sistine Chapel. \u201cConclave\u201d itself is derived from a Latin phrase \u2014 meaning, \u201cwith key.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/08\/us\/pope-conclave-keys-of-st-peter.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fresco is on the north wall of the Sistine Chapel, up and to the right as the cardinals enter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[693,5537,924,2502,1824,925,3119],"class_list":["post-24139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us","tag-christians-and-christianity","tag-clergy","tag-francis","tag-popes","tag-religion-and-belief","tag-roman-catholic-church","tag-sistine-chapel-vatican-city"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u200b\u200bWhat\u2019s at Stake in the Conclave? 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