(April 21, 2025 at 11:51 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(April 21, 2025 at 11:08 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Fun fact: Of the 252 cardinals in the Catholic Church, only 135 are eligible to take part in the Conclave. The sole criteria of eligibility are A: they're currently active cardinals, B: They're under 80.
Of the 135 eligible cardinals, only 33 are under 65. The youngest is 45.
So of the 135 voters, only about 25% are younger than 65?
Good luck with that keeping on, then.
So, what you're saying is that someone should sneak into their conclave and pop a really loud balloon suddenly?
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"