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2025 papal conclave begins, with cardinals set to choose new pope to succeed Pope Francis

Editorial Board Published May 7, 2025
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Catholic cardinal electors from 5 continents gathered Wednesday contained in the Sistine Chapel on the Vatican for the 2025 conclave to pick out a brand new pope. The conclave started precisely 16 days after the dying of 88-year-old Pope Francis, who led the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics for 12 years. 

It’s unattainable to say how lengthy the conclave will final, however many observers count on the 133 cardinal electors to decide on a brand new pontiff inside a couple of days.

Earlier Wednesday, cardinals held a remaining mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, led by the dean of the Faculty of Cardinals, Giovanni Battisa Re.

“We are here to invoke the help of the Holy Spirit, to implore his light and strength so that the pope elected may be he whom the Church and humanity need at this difficult and complex turning point in history,” Re informed the cardinals. “This is also a strong call to maintain the unity of the Church… a unity that does not mean uniformity, but a firm and profound communion in diversity.”

Re stated the cardinals ought to pray for “a pope who knows how best to awaken the consciences of all and the moral and spiritual energies in today’s society, characterized by great technological progress but which tends to forget God. Today’s world expects much from the church regarding the safeguarding of those fundamental human and spiritual values without which human coexistence will not be better nor bring good to future generations.”

After a gathering within the Apostolic Palace, essentially the most various group of electors ever, from at the very least 70 completely different nations, walked in procession from the palace’s Pauline Chapel into the adjoining Sistine Chapel, the place the conclave will probably be held.

Individuals watch a display in St .Peter’s Sq. displaying cardinals contained in the Sistine Chapel, on the primary day of the conclave to elect the following pope, on the Vatican, Could 7, 2025.

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The course of to pick out a brand new pope is shrouded in secrecy, and the cardinal electors filed up one after the other to take an oath contained in the chapel simply earlier than the conclave bought underway, vowing to protect that secrecy.

“In a particular way, we promise and swear to observe with the greatest fidelity and with all persons, clerical or lay, secrecy regarding everything that in any way relates to the election of the Roman Pontiff and regarding what occurs in the place of the election, directly or indirectly related to the results of the voting,” the cardinals swore, in Latin. “We promise and swear not to break this secret in any way, either during or after the election of the new pontiff, unless explicit authorization is granted by the same pontiff.”

The cardinal electors are pressured to surrender their digital gadgets throughout the conclave.

Dozens of much less senior Vatican employees and clergy who will play some half within the conclave had already taken an analogous vow of secrecy.

After the final of the cardinal electors took the oath of secrecy, a declaration of “extra omnes” — or “everyone out” — by Archbishop Diego Ravelli, the Vatican’s grasp of ceremonies, was the sign for everybody else to go away the Sistine Chapel so the work of the conclave may start. The chapel’s doorways had been then locked from the within.

The cardinals had been more likely to maintain one spherical of voting earlier than a night prayer on Wednesday. If no pope is chosen, black smoke from the chapel chimney will point out a continuation of the conclave, and voting will resume on Thursday.

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