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People wait for the smoke billowing from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals are gathering on the first day of the conclave, indicating that a successor of late Pope Francis was elected or not, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Pink smoke rises in front of St. Peter's Dome during a protest by the Women's Ordination Conference, calling for full equality for women in the Catholic Church on the first day of the conclave to elect the 267th pope, in Rome, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Activists from the Women's Ordination Conference release pink smoke to call for full equality for women in the Catholic Church on the first day of the conclave to elect the 267th pope, in Rome, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
A faithful arrives in St. Peter's Square for the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Faithful kneel during a final Mass celebrated by cardinals inside St. Peter's Basilica, before the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinals, with white mitre hats, attend a final Mass inside St. Peter's Basilica, before the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, center, greets Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo during a final Mass celebrated by cardinals inside St. Peter's Basilica, before the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
A nun waves a Spanish flag near St. Peter's Basilica, background, in Rome, on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, on the day cardinals sequester themselves at the Vatican for the start of a conclave to elect the 267th Roman pontiff, a successor to Pope Francis. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
View of the main balcony of the St Peter's Basilica prior to the beginning of the conclave, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
A giant screen in St Peter's Basilica shows Vatican Master of Ceremonies Archbishop Diego Giovanni Ravelli closing the doors to the Sistine Chapel after calling out "extra omnes", Latin for "all out," during the cardinals' conclave to elect a new pope at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Vatican Master of Ceremonies, Archbishop Diego Giovanni Ravelli closes the doors of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to start the conclave to elect the successor of late Pope Francis, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)
Cardinals make their way in the Sala Regia to enter the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to start the conclave to elect the successor of late Pope Francis, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)
Faithful watch a giant screen showing images of cardinals entering the conclave, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinals attend the first day of the conclave to elect the successor of late Pope Francis inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)
Cardinal Pietro Parolin takes the oath inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican at the start of the conclave to elect the successor of late Pope Francis, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)
Statues of the Bernini Colonnade are silhouetted against a cloudy sky during the cardinals' conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
People gather in St Peter's Square as they wait to see the smoke billow from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in St Peter's Square during the cardinals' conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals are gathering on the first day of the conclave, indicating that a successor of late Pope Francis was not elected, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals are gathering on the first day of the conclave, indicating that a successor of late Pope Francis was not elected, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals are gathering on the first day of the conclave, indicating that a successor of late Pope Francis was not elected, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
A chair is taken away at the end of a final Mass celebrated by cardinals inside St. Peter's Basilica, before the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, left, celebrates a final Mass celebrated by cardinals inside St. Peter's Basilica, before the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re celebrates a final Mass with cardinals inside St. Peter's Basilica, before the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
A faithful prays in St. Peter's Square during a final Mass by cardinals ahead of the conclave, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
A nun shelters from the rain as she follows a final Mass celebrated by cardinals inside St. Peter's Basilica before the conclave to elect a new pope, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi looks up during a final Mass celebrated by cardinals inside St. Peter's Basilica, before the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinals attend a final Mass St. Peter's Basilica, before the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Marc Ouellet walks outside the Vatican, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Nuns pray during a congress of nearly 900 superiors of the world's female religious orders in Rome, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Cardinal Virgílio do Carmo da Silva arrives in the New Hall of the Synod at the Vatican, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, the last time before the start of the conclave starting in the afternoon of Wenesday, May 7, when they will elect the successor of Pope Francis. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Timothy Peter Joseph Radcliffe arrives at the Vatican, Monday, May 5, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Nuns pray during a congress of nearly 900 superiors of the world's female religious orders in Rome, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Cardinal Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib arrives at the Vatican, Monday, May 5, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo arrives at the Vatican, Monday, May 5, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Joseph Coutts arrives at the Vatican, Monday, May 5, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Tourists ride their bicycles next to St. Peter's Basilica, background, at the Vatican, on Monday, May 5, 2025, two days ahead of the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal John Dew leaves the Vatican on Monday, May 5, 2025, after attending the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti arrives at the Vatican, Monday, May 5, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
A nun walks past Bernini's colonnade near St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinals Ruben Salazar Gomez, left is flanked by Cardinal Luis José Rueda Aparicio as they arrive in the New Hall of the Synod at the Vatican, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, the last time before the start of the conclave starting in the afternoon of Wenesday, May 7, when they will elect the successor of Pope Francis. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Workers install sound system speakers in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, on Monday, May 5, 2025, ahead of the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Ladislav Nemet talks to journalists, on Monday, May 5, 2025, after attending the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
A nun walks during a congress of nearly 900 superiors of the world's female religious orders in Rome, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Cardinal Francis Leo walks near the Vatican, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
A reproduction of Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam" is painted in a parking garage in Rome, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Papal vestments of three different sizes hang in the Room of the Tears, a chamber next to the Sistine Chapel where the new pope dresses before appearing on the balcony, at the Vatican, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)
Clouds pass over the St. Peter Basilica at the Vatican, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller walks outside the Vatican, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
The Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather to elect the new pope, is seen Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, foreground, walks in downtown Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Firefighters place the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather to elect the new pope, at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Robert Sarah arrives at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Firefighters place the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather to elect the new pope, at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Firefighters place the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather to elect the new pope, at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Timothy Peter Joseph Radcliffe arrives at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
In this image taken on Monday, April 28, 2025, and made available Saturday, May 3, 2025, by Vatican Media, workers prepare the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, where the upcoming conclave will start May 7, backdropped by Michelangelo Buonarroti's fresco 'The Last Judgement'. (Vatican Media via AP)
In this image taken on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, and made available Saturday, May 3, 2025, by Vatican Media, workers and restorers prepare the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, where the upcoming conclave will start May 7. (Vatican Media via AP)
Guatemalan Cardinal Alvaro Ramazzini speaks during an interview with Associated Press at the headquarters of the Scalabrinian congregation, in Rome, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
A scale car of the popemobile in Rome, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
From left to right: religious memorabilia depicting Pope John XXIII, John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI in Rome, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Vincent Nichols attends an interview at the Venerable English College, in Rome, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
A tourist enters the Palace of the Popes that hosted the longest conclave in the Catholic Church's history, in Viterbo, Italy, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino )
An image of the cardinals who voted in the longest conclave in the Catholic Church's history, is carved on the bronze door of St. Lorenzo Cathedral, in Viterbo, Italy, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino )
A view of St. Lorenzo square taken from the "Loggia dei Papi" of the Palace of the Popes that hosted the longest conclave in the Catholic Church's history, in Viterbo, Italy, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino )
Cardinal arrives at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinal Francis Leo leaves the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, after attending a session of the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
A priest removes his chasuble in the sacristy of Santa Maria ai Monti Church after Mass in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, center, prepares in the sacristy of Santa Maria ai Monti church before celebrating Mass in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline prepares in the sacristy of Santa Maria ai Monti church before celebrating Mass in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Peter Erdo leads a mass at his titular church of Santa Francesca Romana in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi, center, leaves at the end of a mass on the eight of nine days of mourning for late Pope Francis, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Journalists look at a photograph of the conclave where late Pope Francis was elected on March 13, 2013, and displayed inside the Borgia Apartments at the Vatican Museums during a press tour, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
In the foreground center to right: Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, Cardinal Dean Giovanni Battista Re, and Cardinal Lazarus You Heung-sik attend a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Faithful gather for a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican,Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Lazarus You Heung-sik before attending a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Faithful gather for a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican,Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, center, greets faithful after a mass at Santa Maria ai Monti church in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
From left, cardinals Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib, Anthony Poola, Charles Maung Bo and Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanij leave the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, after attending a session of the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu celebrates Mass at his titular church, San Gabriele Arcangelo all'Acqua Traversa three days before the conclave to elect the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu celebrates Mass at his titular church, San Gabriele Arcangelo all'Acqua Traversa three days before the conclave to elect the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Catholic Templari Oggi or "Templars Today" association members parade along the city centre to arrive to St. Mary and the Martyrs Basilica, or Agrippa Pantheon, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu arrives to celebrate Mass at his titular church, San Gabriele Arcangelo all'Acqua Traversa three days before the conclave to elect the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinal Peter Erdo arrives to lead a mass at his titular church of Santa Francesca Romana in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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People wait for the smoke billowing from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals are gathering on the first day of the conclave, indicating that a successor of late Pope Francis was elected or not, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Pink smoke rises in front of St. Peter's Dome during a protest by the Women's Ordination Conference, calling for full equality for women in the Catholic Church on the first day of the conclave to elect the 267th pope, in Rome, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Activists from the Women's Ordination Conference release pink smoke to call for full equality for women in the Catholic Church on the first day of the conclave to elect the 267th pope, in Rome, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
A faithful arrives in St. Peter's Square for the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Faithful kneel during a final Mass celebrated by cardinals inside St. Peter's Basilica, before the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinals, with white mitre hats, attend a final Mass inside St. Peter's Basilica, before the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, center, greets Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo during a final Mass celebrated by cardinals inside St. Peter's Basilica, before the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
A nun waves a Spanish flag near St. Peter's Basilica, background, in Rome, on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, on the day cardinals sequester themselves at the Vatican for the start of a conclave to elect the 267th Roman pontiff, a successor to Pope Francis. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
View of the main balcony of the St Peter's Basilica prior to the beginning of the conclave, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
A giant screen in St Peter's Basilica shows Vatican Master of Ceremonies Archbishop Diego Giovanni Ravelli closing the doors to the Sistine Chapel after calling out "extra omnes", Latin for "all out," during the cardinals' conclave to elect a new pope at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Vatican Master of Ceremonies, Archbishop Diego Giovanni Ravelli closes the doors of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to start the conclave to elect the successor of late Pope Francis, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)
Cardinals make their way in the Sala Regia to enter the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to start the conclave to elect the successor of late Pope Francis, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)
Faithful watch a giant screen showing images of cardinals entering the conclave, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinals attend the first day of the conclave to elect the successor of late Pope Francis inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)
Cardinal Pietro Parolin takes the oath inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican at the start of the conclave to elect the successor of late Pope Francis, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)
Statues of the Bernini Colonnade are silhouetted against a cloudy sky during the cardinals' conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
People gather in St Peter's Square as they wait to see the smoke billow from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in St Peter's Square during the cardinals' conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals are gathering on the first day of the conclave, indicating that a successor of late Pope Francis was not elected, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals are gathering on the first day of the conclave, indicating that a successor of late Pope Francis was not elected, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals are gathering on the first day of the conclave, indicating that a successor of late Pope Francis was not elected, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
A chair is taken away at the end of a final Mass celebrated by cardinals inside St. Peter's Basilica, before the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, left, celebrates a final Mass celebrated by cardinals inside St. Peter's Basilica, before the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re celebrates a final Mass with cardinals inside St. Peter's Basilica, before the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
A faithful prays in St. Peter's Square during a final Mass by cardinals ahead of the conclave, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
A nun shelters from the rain as she follows a final Mass celebrated by cardinals inside St. Peter's Basilica before the conclave to elect a new pope, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi looks up during a final Mass celebrated by cardinals inside St. Peter's Basilica, before the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinals attend a final Mass St. Peter's Basilica, before the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Marc Ouellet walks outside the Vatican, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Nuns pray during a congress of nearly 900 superiors of the world's female religious orders in Rome, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Cardinal Virgílio do Carmo da Silva arrives in the New Hall of the Synod at the Vatican, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, the last time before the start of the conclave starting in the afternoon of Wenesday, May 7, when they will elect the successor of Pope Francis. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Timothy Peter Joseph Radcliffe arrives at the Vatican, Monday, May 5, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Nuns pray during a congress of nearly 900 superiors of the world's female religious orders in Rome, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Cardinal Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib arrives at the Vatican, Monday, May 5, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo arrives at the Vatican, Monday, May 5, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Joseph Coutts arrives at the Vatican, Monday, May 5, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Tourists ride their bicycles next to St. Peter's Basilica, background, at the Vatican, on Monday, May 5, 2025, two days ahead of the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal John Dew leaves the Vatican on Monday, May 5, 2025, after attending the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti arrives at the Vatican, Monday, May 5, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
A nun walks past Bernini's colonnade near St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinals Ruben Salazar Gomez, left is flanked by Cardinal Luis José Rueda Aparicio as they arrive in the New Hall of the Synod at the Vatican, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, the last time before the start of the conclave starting in the afternoon of Wenesday, May 7, when they will elect the successor of Pope Francis. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Workers install sound system speakers in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, on Monday, May 5, 2025, ahead of the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Ladislav Nemet talks to journalists, on Monday, May 5, 2025, after attending the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
A nun walks during a congress of nearly 900 superiors of the world's female religious orders in Rome, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Cardinal Francis Leo walks near the Vatican, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
A reproduction of Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam" is painted in a parking garage in Rome, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Papal vestments of three different sizes hang in the Room of the Tears, a chamber next to the Sistine Chapel where the new pope dresses before appearing on the balcony, at the Vatican, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)
Clouds pass over the St. Peter Basilica at the Vatican, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller walks outside the Vatican, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
The Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather to elect the new pope, is seen Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, foreground, walks in downtown Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Firefighters place the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather to elect the new pope, at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Robert Sarah arrives at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Firefighters place the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather to elect the new pope, at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Firefighters place the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather to elect the new pope, at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Timothy Peter Joseph Radcliffe arrives at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
In this image taken on Monday, April 28, 2025, and made available Saturday, May 3, 2025, by Vatican Media, workers prepare the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, where the upcoming conclave will start May 7, backdropped by Michelangelo Buonarroti's fresco 'The Last Judgement'. (Vatican Media via AP)
In this image taken on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, and made available Saturday, May 3, 2025, by Vatican Media, workers and restorers prepare the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, where the upcoming conclave will start May 7. (Vatican Media via AP)
Guatemalan Cardinal Alvaro Ramazzini speaks during an interview with Associated Press at the headquarters of the Scalabrinian congregation, in Rome, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
A scale car of the popemobile in Rome, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
From left to right: religious memorabilia depicting Pope John XXIII, John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI in Rome, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Vincent Nichols attends an interview at the Venerable English College, in Rome, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
A tourist enters the Palace of the Popes that hosted the longest conclave in the Catholic Church's history, in Viterbo, Italy, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino )
An image of the cardinals who voted in the longest conclave in the Catholic Church's history, is carved on the bronze door of St. Lorenzo Cathedral, in Viterbo, Italy, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino )
A view of St. Lorenzo square taken from the "Loggia dei Papi" of the Palace of the Popes that hosted the longest conclave in the Catholic Church's history, in Viterbo, Italy, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino )
Cardinal arrives at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinal Francis Leo leaves the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, after attending a session of the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
A priest removes his chasuble in the sacristy of Santa Maria ai Monti Church after Mass in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, center, prepares in the sacristy of Santa Maria ai Monti church before celebrating Mass in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline prepares in the sacristy of Santa Maria ai Monti church before celebrating Mass in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Peter Erdo leads a mass at his titular church of Santa Francesca Romana in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi, center, leaves at the end of a mass on the eight of nine days of mourning for late Pope Francis, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Journalists look at a photograph of the conclave where late Pope Francis was elected on March 13, 2013, and displayed inside the Borgia Apartments at the Vatican Museums during a press tour, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
In the foreground center to right: Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, Cardinal Dean Giovanni Battista Re, and Cardinal Lazarus You Heung-sik attend a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Faithful gather for a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican,Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Lazarus You Heung-sik before attending a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Faithful gather for a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican,Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, center, greets faithful after a mass at Santa Maria ai Monti church in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
From left, cardinals Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib, Anthony Poola, Charles Maung Bo and Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanij leave the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, after attending a session of the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu celebrates Mass at his titular church, San Gabriele Arcangelo all'Acqua Traversa three days before the conclave to elect the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu celebrates Mass at his titular church, San Gabriele Arcangelo all'Acqua Traversa three days before the conclave to elect the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Catholic Templari Oggi or "Templars Today" association members parade along the city centre to arrive to St. Mary and the Martyrs Basilica, or Agrippa Pantheon, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu arrives to celebrate Mass at his titular church, San Gabriele Arcangelo all'Acqua Traversa three days before the conclave to elect the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
