<h4>Why Only Kenyan Cardinal Missed Out In The Sistine Chapel Election Of New Pope</h4>
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<p><strong><a href="https://openlife.ng/">OpenLife Nigeria</a></strong> reports that the Catholic Church in Kenya has responded to concerns that the country&#8217;s only cardinal will not be participating in the election of the next pope because he had not been asked to attend.</p>
<p>Following Pope Francis&#8217; death last month, senior Catholic leaders, known as cardinals, who are younger than 80, are eligible to elect his successor.</p>
<p>They resumed meeting in the Vatican on Wednesday, but Kenyan Cardinal John Njue, 79, was quoted in a Kenyan newspaper saying that he had not been invited and he did not know why.</p>
<p>Catholic officials in Kenya later said that he had been invited but was not able to go because of ill health.</p>
<p>&#8220;Although the cardinal is eligible to participate and was officially invited&#8230; owing to his current health condition he was unable to travel to Rome,&#8221; a statement signed by Archbishop Philip Anyolo said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Let us also continue to pray for the good health of His Eminence John Cardinal Njue.&#8221;</p>
<p>The archbishop did not explain the health issues further.</p>
<p>A statement by the Nairobi archdiocese noted that it was reacting to concerns over Cardinal Njue&#8217;s participation and &#8220;various enquiries&#8221; about whether he would be at the cardinals&#8217; meeting, known as a conclave.</p>
<p>The Daily Nation newspaper had quoted him as saying that he had not been invited adding that &#8220;it is not because of health&#8230; I don&#8217;t know really&#8230; it&#8217;s difficult to comment about it. &#8221;</p>
<p>Cardinal Njue was the Archbishop of Nairobi from 2007 until his retirement in 2021.</p>
<p>He was appointed a cardinal in 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI becoming the second cardinal to have come from the country.</p>
<p>He and Spain&#8217;s Cardinal Antonio Cañizares, 79, are the only cardinals who will not be participating in the papal vote out the 133 who are eligible.</p>
<p>A two-thirds majority, or at least 89 of them, are required to elect the new pontiff and successor of Pope Francis to lead the world&#8217;s 1.4 billion Catholics.</p>

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