God and the Holy Spirit will guide the cardinals in their upcoming vote to select Pope Francis’ successor, Monsignor Hilary Franco, the author of “Six Popes” and the adviser to the Office of the Permanent Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, told Newsmax Saturday. 

The 133 cardinals to be voting for the next pope are observing the Catholic Church’s tradition of nine days of Novemdiales Masses in mourning for Pope Francis, beginning with his funeral on April 26 and concluding on May 4, and on May 7 will enter their conclave, Franco told Newsmax’s “Saturday Report.” 

“They have to know each other,” he said.” This is why the wisdom of the church allows them, you know, to be here like these nine Masses … those are the nine days that perhaps they could talk to each other.”

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