
Cardinals attend the Holy Mass, celebrated for the election of the new pope, presided over by the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, in St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, May 7, 2025. — Reuters
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The thick black smoke from the chimney of the Sustainy Chapel on Wednesday turned out that the cardinals had failed to elect the new head of the Catholic Church in their first conference vote.
Tens of thousands of people gathered in St. Peters Square, waiting for the smoke, which came close to 15 minutes about three hours 15 minutes after the closure of 133 cardinals.
Before starting voting again on Thursday, the Pillites will now return to the Santa Marta Guest House, where they are staying for the elections.
Cardinals were called back to Rome after Pope Francis’s death 21 years later, 12 years after the world’s 1.4 billion Catholic head.
Under a centuries-old ritual, those who voted at the Sustaine Chapel at the age of 80 unless one-third of them selects -89 votes.
To avoid disturbances, the only way to communicate their results is to burn their belt with chemicals.
If there is no decision, it is black, if they have a new pope.
The deal is the largest and most international, with nearly 70 cardinals gathered, many of which do not know each other first.
There is no clear front to make the charismatic Argentina Francis a success, in which the Cardinals represent many progressive and conservative traditions within the church.
But the challenges facing the 2,000 -year -old ancient institution are clear.
The new Pope will face diplomatic balance operations at the time of deep division within the church, along with the geographical political uncertainty.
The scandal with scandalous scandals with academic children and in the West, rapidly suffers from empty drinks.
Waiting for smoke
With a strong procession of cardinals and other pastors in the Sustaine Chapel, the conference was launched directly on the big screens in front of St. Peter’s Basilica.
“Come here will be perfect, cute for a new pope here,” said 60 -year -old Irish tourist Ketarona Hoo.
“Francis was a very good, progressive, man of people, though he did not advance things as much as I liked,” he said.
“The church will not do any favor to himself if he chooses a conservative.”
As the night fell, the crowd swollen, including many young and children. Some sang the hymns while others danced.
In the square, a young woman dressed like a pope showed her black small podle.
Cardinal voters had previously gathered in a quiet prayer at the nearby Paulin Chapel before going to the 15th century Sustain Chapel, where tables and chairs were placed under Michellejilo’s frescoes.
Before each cardinal altar approached, they swear by a group.
According to a video feed prepared by the Vatican, he filed a retail master’s final decision in front of the master’s final decision, when Christians believe that God determines who goes to heaven or hell.
The conference’s master of events announced the “extra Omence” – “every out” in Latin – and then closed the heavy doors of the chapel. Black smoke came out immediately after 900 pm (1900 GMT).
There are four votes a day until a winner is elected.
Both Francis and his predecessor, XVI, were selected within two days, but the longest Popal selection lasted from 1268 to 1271 for 1,006 days.
Pray for the Alliance
Cardinals joined a Mass in St. Peter’s Baselica before the conference on Wednesday morning, where Dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Giwani Bitsta R, offered some final suggestions.
He said, “We are here to help the Holy Spirit, to plead with its light and strength so that the pope can be selected, which requires a church and humanity at this difficult and complex turning point in history.”
“This is also a strong call to maintain the unity of the church … a coalition that does not mean uniformity, but a strong and deep party in diversity.”
He called it a choice of “extraordinary importance”, which causes red performers to separate “every personal consideration”.
Bitsta R itself is very old to vote, Cardinal Electric needs under 80 years of age.
The 267th Pope was the last ritual of publicly celebrated before St. Peters Basilica’s balcony presenting the 267th Pope to the world.
Women protest
Cardinals have spent days discussing the highly pressure challenges facing the Catholic Church, and this role needs its new leader.
Burning matters include how to fall, the role of women, the Vatican’s disturbing balance sheet and how to adapt the church into the modern world.
Batsta urged the cardinals to “pray for a pope who knows how to awaken everyone’s conscience … in today’s society, whose characteristics have great technological development but who forgets God”.
Meanwhile, in Rome, women’s rights workers gathered to protest against the absence of women at the conference.
“We’re telling Cardinals,” said Mary Divagan of the UK -based Wesangards Institute for Catholic Research, you can’t ignore 50 % of the population of the Catholic population. “
About 80 percent of the cardinals voted was appointed by Francis.
But while Cardinals have said they will support the leader who is capable of protecting and developing his legacy, other people want a more conservative protector of theory.
From Italian Pierrebstita Pizabala to Hungary’s Peter Erdo and Sri Lanka’s Malcolm Ranjit, more than a dozen names are circulating.