
Black smoke rises from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel, indicating no decision has been made to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025 — Reuters
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Vatican City: White smoke smoke from the chimney of the Sustaine Chapel on Thursday, indicating that closed cardinals have selected a new leader for the world’s 1.4 billion Catholic.
Thousands of pilgrims and curious spectators in St. Peters Square made joy and appreciation when smoke appeared and bells began to ring, which shows that it has 267th pope in the 2,000 -year -old ancient institution.
All eyes now turn to St. Peters Baselica’s balcony, to see who was elected after Argentina’s Pope Francis, who died 12 years later as the leader of the World Wide Church last month.
The new Pontuff will be introduced in Latin with its selected Popal name and will be addressed to the world for the first time.
It faces an important task: In addition to emphasizing its moral voice globally, it faces the burning of church problems from the continuous fall of sexual abuse scandals to the Vatican’s disturbing balance sheets.
Some 133 “princes of the church” – the biggest conference so far began voting on Wednesday afternoon.
The type of secret, the pain of forgiveness was to send smoke through the chimney of the Sustaine Chapel.
On Wednesday evening and then Thursday, once again, the smoke was black, which left thousands of people disappointed.
But on Thursday afternoon, after 6pm (1600 GMT), the smoke was white, confirming that the Catholic Church has a new spiritual leader.
According to the tradition, he now enters the tear room-where the freshly selected pope restrains his emotions-for the first time before returning to the Sustaine Chapel, the Popal Kasak can be donated so that the cardinals can pledge their obedience.
He will then be present in the balcony with a senior cardinal, which will announce the waiting crowd “Hubmus Popium” (“we have a pope”).
After that the Pope will make a brief speech and bless his first “Arbie Et and Bay” (“the city and the world”).
The pastor or diplomat
This election came at the time of a great geographical political uncertainty, which was seen as an important issue of voting as well as rumors within the church.
Francis was a sympathetic adviser who preferred immigrants and environments, but he offended the traditions who wanted a protector of ideology rather than a headline.
About 80 80 % of the cardinal was appointed by Francis. From 70 countries around the world, it was the most international domination so far.
However, there was no guarantee that the cardinals would choose someone in his vein.
The question was whether a priest or diplomat, a liberal or conservative is to choose, which is mastery in Korea – the governing body of the church – or a relative from these areas of the world, where a Catholic belief is promoted.
Before the cardinals were locked in the Sustaine Chapel on Wednesday, their Dean Giwani Bitsta urged them to choose a person capable of protecting the church’s alliance.
The next Pope should also be able to guide the worldwide conflicts and the rise of highly nationalist parties, “at this difficult and complex turning point in history”.
The church has also had a difficult time in the modern world, which has reduced the number of priests in the West and is rapidly empty.
The inauguration of the Popal is usually less than a week after a widespread election to political and religious leaders from all over the world.
The new pope will possibly visit St. Peters Square for the first time before presenting its priorities before outline its priorities.