When is Habemus Farm going to be?Pope Election Conclave Starts Today
May 07, 2025
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The conclave, which will be held at the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, will involve 133 cardinals from 70 countries on five continents.
Cardinals under the age of 80 will be given the right to vote as of the day before the `sede' (the pope's position) becomes vacant, and 133 of the 135 voters will participate in the conclave, excluding Kenyan Cardinal John Nzue and Spain's Cardinal Antonio Canizares Lovera, who were absent for health reasons.
The conclave continues until a candidate wins at least 89 support, more than two-thirds of the cardinal electorate. On the first day, a vote will take place once at 4:30 p.m. After that, up to four votes are held every day, twice in the morning and afternoon.
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When a new pope is elected, the head of the College of Cardinals asks the president-elect whether he will accept it or not and the name of the new pope. Then, the chief cardinal of the Electoral College goes out to the balcony of St. Peter's Great Hall and shouts "Habemus Papam" (We have a pope) to announce the birth of the new pope to the world.
After that, the new pope appears in public for the first time and gives the world its first apostolic blessing, 'Urbi et Orbi' (Urbi et Orbi, Latin for 'Roma and the whole world).
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Cardinals who run for election pledge to permanently keep everything that happens at the conclave a secret and are absolutely prohibited from communicating with the outside world, such as cell phone possession, the Internet, and reading newspapers. Support personnel such as elevator operation managers, doctors, drivers, chefs, and laundry staff also completed confidentiality agreements early on.
The Vatican has been making all-out efforts to maintain security, including deactivating the mobile phone communication signal transmission system in Vatican City, an hour and a half before the first vote of the conclave. In the Sistine Chapel, a preliminary precise search was conducted to check whether wiretapping and recording devices were installed, and opaque films were attached to all windows to prevent filming of polling sites through drones and satellites.
All ballots are incinerated before the cardinals leave the Sistine Chapel after the election.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
