2025 Pope Conference begins in the Vatican, Black Smoke shows no new pope selected in the first vote

Catholic cardinal voters from six continents gathered in the Vatican's Sistine Church on Wednesday 2025 meeting chooses the new pope. After the first round of votes, as night falls in Rome, black smoke rises from the Sistine Church, indicating that they have not yet agreed to the next pope's choice.

Summary: Starting 16 days after the death of Pope Francis, Francis, who led the world's 1.4 billion Catholics for 12 years.

Since no one gets more than two-thirds of the votes needed in the first round, the Cardinal will resume the process Thursday morning. Choosing the New Pope will send a signal of white smoke.

It's impossible to say How long will the conference instrument last?but many observers expect 133 cardinal voters to choose a new pope within a few days.

Earlier Wednesday, the Cardinal held the final mass at St. Peter's Basilica, led by Cardinal Dean Giovanni Battisa Re.

“We are here to invoke the help of the Holy Spirit and imploring His light and strength so that the Pope is elected to be the church and mankind need him at this difficult and complex turning point in history,” Re told the Cardinal. “This is also a strong call to maintain the unity of the church…this unity does not mean unity, but a firm and profound exchange in diversity.”

Ray said the Cardinal should pray for “a pope who knows how to best awaken the conscience of all and the moral and spiritual energy in today’s society, characterized by huge technological advances but tendency to forget God. The world today expects a lot from the church, from which people do not bring any better people and better futures without humanity.

Following the gatherings at the Apostles Palace, the most diverse voters ever made from at least 70 different countries, paraded from the palace’s Pauline Chapel into the adjacent Sistine Chapel, where it will be held.

this The process of choosing a new pope Covered secretly, the cardinal voters submitted their oaths one by one and were sworn in in the church, and before the meeting began, they vowed to keep that confidential.

“In a special way, we guarantee and vow to observe with the utmost loyalty and all (the instrument or the lying person), in any way everything related to the election of the Roman priests, and in any way that the election (which occurs directly or indirectly) is directly or indirectly related to the results of the vote,” Cardinal in Latin. “We promise and vow not to destroy this secret in any way during or after the election of the new pope unless the same pope grants express authorization.”

During the meeting, cardinal voters were forced to abandon their digital devices.

Dozens of a handful of senior Vatican employees and clergy will play some roles in the meeting, and they have issued similar oaths of confidentiality.

After the last cardinal took the oath, the Vatican Archbishop Diego Ravelli announced “extra omnes” or “all people”, the Vatican Archbishop Diego Ravelli was the ritual master of the Vatican, which was a signal that everyone else left the Sistine Church, so the work of the conclusion could begin. The church door then locks from the inside.

The Cardinals are expected to hold a vote before praying Wednesday evening and as additional votes are required, they will return to Sistine Church to continue the process Thursday morning.