US EditionBlack smoke over Vatican signals no pope chosen on first day of conclave
- On Wednesday evening in Vatican City, 133 cardinals began a secretive conclave to elect a new pope but did not reach a decision in the first vote.
- The conclave started after Pope Francis's death last month and involves cardinals from 70 countries, making it the most geographically diverse in Church history.
- Cardinals voted once on Wednesday, burning ballots that produced black smoke, signaling no candidate reached the required two-thirds majority of 89 votes.
- Kevin Hughes noted the initial vote helps cardinals gauge viable candidates while cardinals face pressure to address Church unity and ongoing challenges after Francis's 12-year papacy.
- The cardinals will resume voting Thursday with two rounds each morning and afternoon until a new pope secures the two-thirds majority needed to guide the Catholic Church.
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Several cardinals perpetuate the results of the four ballots on Italian media. Prevost recently received more than 100 out of 133 votes.
What then-Cardinal Prevost told an Illinois parish about his life, Pope Francis, synodality and more
(OSV News) -- Parishioners of St. Jude Parish in the Chicago suburb of New Lenox, Illinois, may have had a moment of shocked recognition as the first American pope stepped out on the balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square May 8. Pope Leo XIV, then-Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, had just visited their Augustinian parish for "An Evening
Two days after the conclave that has chosen Robert Prevost as the new Pope Leo XIV, some information about what happened inside the Sistine Chapel during the four votes that took place between Wednesday and Thursday continues to come to light. The private meeting that the pontiff has had with his cardinals has served to confirm some statements, such as the reason for the choice of his name, Leo XIV, and to know new information.
This is what the Cardinal of Madagascar, Désiré Tsarahazana, Metropolitan Archbishop of Toamasina, says, leaving the first meeting of the new Pope with the cardinals gathered in Rome for the conclave
[NHK] The conclave, the election to decide the new Pope, began in the Vatican on the 7th, but the pope was not decided in the first round of voting on the first day...
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