Amid reports that Cardinal Vinko Puljic would vote for Pope from a Vatican guesthouse rather than in the conclave that begins Tuesday, the retired archbishop of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, announced Monday that he would participate in the closed Sistine Chapel proceedings after all.
“I need help to get in, but I think there will be no problem,” Puljic, 79, said in a filmed interview with an Italian-based nongovernmental organization. “With help I can get into the Sistine Chapel.”
An earlier report in the Italian publication Corriere della Sera last week revealed that Puljic, who has had health problems recently, would stay in the Vatican-owned Santa Marta guesthouse and vote remotely while his brethren were sequestered in the Sistine Chapel and electing a new Pope by secret ballot.
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