Update: a The new pope was electedMeaned by white smoke escape from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel shortly after 12 noon.
The cardinals again failed Thursday morning to find a successor to Pope Francis, sending black smoke which escapes through the chimney of the Sistine Chapel after two other little conclusive cycles of conclave vote.
No candidate obtaining the majority of two -thirds necessary, or 89 votes, the world will have to wait longer for a new head of the Catholic Church. The 133 cardinals took a lunch break before returning to the Sistine Chapel for the afternoon voting session Thursday, where two additional ballots were possible.
Despite the disappointment, the hopes were still raised that a pope was chosen quickly, perhaps from the fourth or fifth election on Thursday afternoon.
“I hope that tonight, going back to Rome, I will find white smoke,” said Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the 91 -year -old dean of the College of Cardinals who presided the mass before the conclave. Re does not participate in the ballot because only cardinals under the age of 80 are eligible to vote.
Re, which was quoted by the Italian media as speaking Thursday in Pompeii, said that it was certain that the 133 cardinals would eliminate “the pope that the church and the world need today”.
For the general public, the rhythm of the vote is dictated in many ways by the Vatican television cameras: you know that a smoke signal is close to the moment when the cameras take their fixed shot on the lean chimney of the Sistine Chapel, with white smoke indicating a winner, and a black meaning without consensus.
Thursday, large school groups joined the mixture of humanity while waiting for the result on Saint-Pierre square. They mixed with people participating in pre-plane pilgrimages of the Holy Year and journalists from around the world who went down to Rome to document the elections.
“The wait is wonderful!” said Priscilla talking, a Roman.
“We hope for white smoke tonight,” said Pedro Detget, 22, a student in Argentina finance. He said that he and his family visited Rome during the Pope Argentinian Pope and hoped for a new pope like François.
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“Francis did well by opening the church to the outside world, but on other fronts, he may not have done enough. We will see if the next one can do more,” said Detget from Piazza.
Reverend Jan Dominik Bogataj, a Slovenian Franciscan brother, was more critical of Francis. He said that if he was in the Sistine Chapel, he would vote for Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem who appears on many lists of papal candidates.
“He has clear ideas, not much ideology. He is a direct, intelligent and respectful man,” said Bogataj since the place. “Above all, he is agile.”
A long wait on the first ballot
“We hope for white smoke tonight,” said Pedro Detget, 22, a student in Argentina finance. He said that he and his family visited Rome during the Pope Argentinian Pope and hoped for a new pope like François.
“Francis did well by opening the church to the outside world, but on other fronts, he may not have done enough. We will see if the next one can do more,” said Detget from Piazza.
Reverend Jan Dominik Bogataj, a Slovenian Franciscan brother, was more critical of Francis. He said that if he was in the Sistine Chapel, he would vote for Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem who appears on many lists of papal candidates.
“He has clear ideas, not much ideology. He is a direct, intelligent and respectful man,” said Bogataj since the place. “Above all, he is agile.”
The cardinals opened the secret and secure ritual on Wednesday afternoon, participating in a more theatrical rite than even Hollywood. Bright red breaks, Swiss guards supported for attention, Latin songs and ballast oaths preceded the closure of the Sistine Chapel doors to seal the cardinals of the outside world.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the 70 -year -old secretary of state under François and a leading competitor to succeed him as a Pope, assumed the procedure as a cardinal under 80, eligible to participate.
Paroline seemed to have received blessings from none other than Re, the elder respected among the cardinals. During the traditional exchange of peace during mass before the contract on Wednesday, RE was taken for a hot micro indicating the paroline “Auguri Doppio” or “Double Best Wishes”. The Italians discussed the question of whether it was a customary gesture recognizing the role of performer performing conclave, or if he could have been an informal approval or even premature congratulations.
The vote follows a strict choreography, dictated by the law of the church.
Each cardinal writes his choice on a piece of paper registered with the words “Eligo in Summen Pontificem” – “I elected as a supreme pontiff”. They approach the altar one by one and say: “I call like my witness, Christ the Lord who will be my judge, that my vote is given to the one who, before God, I think that should be elected.”
The folded ballot is placed on a round plate and tilted in a silver and gold urn. Once poured, the ballots are opened one by one by a different “scan”, the cardinals selected at random who note the names and read them aloud.
The scrupoters, whose work is verified by other cardinals called Revisers, then add the results of each ballot cycle and write them on a separate sheet of paper, which is kept in the papal archives.
While examining the scrutor reads each name, he pierces each ballot with a needle through the word “Eligo”. All voting bulletins are then linked with wire, and the beam is put aside and burned in the stove of the chapel with a chemical to produce smoke.
–Giada Zampano, Helena Alves and Vanessa Gera contributed to this report.