(7 May 2025)
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Vatican City, Vatican – 7 May 2025
1. Various of French Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco standing in front of embalmed body of Pope John XXIII
2. Pan right of Chilean Cardinal Celestino Aós Braco and Cardinal Antoine Kambanda, from Rwanda, walking
3. Pan right of Filipino cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle walking
4. Pan right of cardinals walking
5. French Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco speaking to another cardinal
6. Cardinals walking
7. Pan right of US Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, Italian Cardinal Angelo De Donatis and Polish Cardinal Stanisław Jan Dziwisz walking
8. Cardinal taking a selfie with two priests
9. Various of cardinals in procession
10. Various of cardinals during the mass
STORYLINE:
The centuries-old ritual to elect a pope began on Wednesday, with all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster.
Wearing bright red vestments, the 133 cardinals taking part in the conclave gathered in St Peter’s Basilica as the Sistine Chapel’s boys’ choir sang.
They took up their seats around the main altar, which lies above the traditional burial place of St. Peter, considered to be the first pope.
The church service came ahead of the start of the most geographically diverse conclave in the faith’s 2,000-year history.
The cardinals will walk solemnly into the frescoed Sistine Chapel at 4:30 p.m. (1430 GMT; 10:30 a.m. EDT).
Chanting the meditative “Litany of the Saints” and the Latin hymn “Veni Creator,” they’ll implore the saints and the Holy Spirit to help them pick a pope.
AP video by Paolo Lucariello
Produced by Francesco Sportelli
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