Dear Fellow Catholics:

How many of you are aware of the fact that BEFORE a Cardinal, who has been elected Pope, can actually become a Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, he is required to take a Solemn Oath?

How many of you have ever actually read this Solemn Oath, which is called the "Coronation Oath of the Pope-Elect"?

By the way, this "Coronation" refers to being crowned with the Papal Tiara.

Below, please find the Coronation Oath of the Pope-Elect

Happy reading and God bless you!

In the Holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary

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Coronation Oath
of the
Pope-Elect

I VOW:

To change nothing of the received tradition, and nothing thereof, I have found before me guarded by my God pleasing predecessors, to encroach to alter (change), or to permit any innovation therein;

To the contrary: with glowing affection as Her truly faithful student and successor, to reverently safeguard the passed on good, with my whole strength and utmost effort;

To cleanse all that is in contradiction with canonical order that may surface;

To guard the holy canons and decrees of our Popes likewise as Divine Ordinances of Heaven, because I am conscious of Thee, Whose place I take through the grace of God, Whose Vicarship I possess with Thy support, being subject to severest accounting before Thy divine tribunal over all that I confess.

If I should undertake to act in anything of contrary sense, or should permit that it will be executed, Thou willst not be merciful to me on the dreadful day of Divine Justice.

Accordingly, without exclusion, We subject to severest excommunication anyone - be it Ourself or be it another - who would dare to undertake anything new in contradiction to this constituted evangelic tradition and the purity of the Orthodox Faith and the Christian Religion, or would seek to change anything by his opposing efforts, or would concur with those who undertake such blasphemous venture.

(Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum, (J.P. Migne, PATROLOGIA LATINA, published in 221 volumes, Volume 105, S. 54.)

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