(7 May 2025)
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Vatican City – 7 May 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Crowd reacting to seeing black smoke billowing from chimney on Sistine Chapel
2. People leaving St. Peter’s Square
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Isabel Lammers, visitor from Chicago:
“So it is a very intense prayer for the one who comes after him continues with the same openness, the same love. I am going to miss him but this is it, we just have to pray and ask for guidance and hopefully somebody, 10-20 years into the service gives us the same strength and makes a very solid Catholic Church. We are just so divided as a world so it would be so nice to just have someone with a lot of love.”
4. Wide of crowd
5. People taking photos of smoke
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Isabel Lammers, visitor from Chicago:
“So I am hoping that whoever it is keeps the tradition and keeps it open to everybody because it is just not a lot of love in the world, it’s a lot of exclusion, so we need that. So if it is Tagle or someone else, it is all about how the Holy Spirit will guide them.”
7. St. Peter’s façade detail
8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Luisina Dalpaz, visitor from Trento:
“I thought it would be like this, anyway I thought that it would not happen tonight. Definitely. Maybe tomorrow.”
9. Spanish group in video call with people in Spain
10. Smartphone with friends on video call, pan to group, UPSOUND (Spanish): “Greet them”
11. People leaving
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Martin Jesus, visitor from Spain:
“Well we imagined that the white smoke would not come out today, usually it’s not on the first day.”
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marta Valle, visitor from Spain
“Of course it will come out tomorrow when we go back to Spain."
Martin Jesus (in response): “Yes, tomorrow we go back to Spain. We could only come today and it was a blessing.”
14. Cupola
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Rev Tom Reese, Senior Analyst, Religion News Service:
“We were not surprised by the black smoke. We expected black smoke tonight. But we expected it a lot earlier. At the last Conclave, the smoke appeared around 7:30 in the evening. This was an hour and a half later. People were even beginning to wonder whether they even voted which was an option. They could have simply skipped the vote tonight. But I guess it went longer because we had more cardinals than last time, 133, 20% more cardinals than were here last time. So, or another thing that may have happened was the preacher may have gone on and on and on and on as sometimes they do. But in any case, we finally did get black smoke.”
16. Close of brushes on street cleaning truck
17. Mid of street cleaning truck on Via della Conciliazione
18. Statues on the façade of St. Peter’s Basilica
STORYLINE:
Many faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square seemed unsurprised to witness black smoke on first day of Conclave to elect a new pope.
The smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church.
“Well we imagined that the white smoke would not come out today, usually it’s not on the first day," said Martin Jesus, a visitor from Spain.
Outside in St. Peter’s Square, the scene was festive, as thousands of people flocked to the piazza to watch the proceedings on giant video screens, applauding when the Sistine Chapel’s doors slammed shut and the voting began.
They waited for hours, watching screens that showed just a skinny chimney and occasional seagull.
Some outlined their hopes for the future pope.
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