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Chimney digital camera – reside stream
If you wish to ensure you don’t miss the results of the primary vote when it comes, right here’s our reside stream exhibiting the chimney on high of the Sistine Chapel:
Key occasions
Jakub Krupa
Properly, that was anticipated – even when took longer than we anticipated.
We’ve 133 cardinal electors, lots of whom are new – appointed by Pope Francis – and they also don’t know one another that nicely.
They’ll understandably want extra time to resolve on the suitable particular person to be confirmed because the pope.
The delay is fascinating, however there are such a lot of potential causes for it and it wouldn’t be clever to take a position.
The cardinals will likely be again for extra votes tomorrow: as much as 4 rounds, if wanted. Two within the morning, two within the afternoon.
Black smoke emerges at Vatican as conclave fails to elect pope
No choice within the first spherical of the vote.
We at the moment are nicely into the fourth hour because the doorways to the Sistine Chapel have been closed.
It’s getting darker and darker within the Vatican as hundreds of trustworthy in St Peter’s Sq. and thousands and thousands around the globe await the results of the primary vote.
Jakub Krupa
A reader mails in to ask a wonderfully reputable query concerning the historical past of the Roman seagulls and the way they ended up in-land.
Personally, I do not know, however completely love the query.
Having mentioned that, seems our Rome correspondent Angela Giuffirda provides a touch of what may very well be the reply right here in considered one of her current stories from the Italian capital:
[A Rome zoologist Andrea] Lunerti mentioned: “Rome actually must get a grip on its waste administration, in any other case we will likely be seeing much more snakes and hornets, to not point out the rats and seagulls – there are extra seagulls in Rome than there are in Fregene [a nearby coastal town].”
He mentioned that not less than the seagulls helped cut back the numbers of rats and snakes. “A snake was captured by a seagull and dropped on to a terrace,” he mentioned. “The town has turn out to be a correct jungle.”
Final yr Venice additionally needed to briefly shut its airport due to seagulls, however then that makes extra sense given its location…
In any case, if anybody is aware of the complete story of the Roman seagulls, please electronic mail me at jakub.krupa@theguardian.com.
As we wait…
Lots of people following the real-life conclave in all probability watched the hit Oscar-winning film starring Ralph Fiennes to see what to anticipate to occur within the subsequent few days.
(I actually did and, if Politico is to be believed, even among the precise cardinals participating in it did, too.)
And my colleague Adrian Horton requested the suitable query:
As a deft and extremely entertaining thriller on the furtive means of electing a brand new pope, nicely, you’ll be able to anticipate individuals to think about Conclave as near documentary as laypeople can get to the motion. However how correct is it?
Properly, based on consultants, extra spot-on than not, and on the very least meticulously researched.
Listed here are their solutions in full:
An X consumer even produced a useful side-by-side clip now, if you wish to evaluate the fiction and the truth.
All eyes on Sistine Chapel’s chimney – in footage
Jakub Krupa
The wait continues. I believe I recognise most seagulls on this roof by now.
Anticipation within the Vatican – in footage
Should you surprise concerning the chemistry behind the Vatican smoke, right here’s our explainer from the final conclave in 2013.
What number of votes are often wanted to elect pope?
Traditionally, among the conclaves have been actually drawn out: in thirteenth century, they wanted three years, over 1,000 days, to decide on Gregory X.
There was additionally one which ended on the identical day, though it began earlier within the morning: Julius II in 1503 was elected after simply 10 hours.
However within the final 150 years, it was often a a lot shorter course of: the longest, for Pius XI in 1922, took 5 days.
Francis was elected on the second day in 2013, after 5 rounds of voting; equally, Benedict XVI wanted simply 4 rounds to be confirmed as the brand new pope in 2005, as did John Paul I in 1978.
A bit extra time was wanted to verify John Paul II – three days, eight rounds – in 1978, and John XXIII in 1958, with 11 votes over 4 days. However then his instant predecessor, Pius XII was elected after simply three rounds.
So, the current historical past appears to recommend we may very nicely have a brand new pope earlier than the weekend.
However because the course of is so secretive and there are such a lot of shifting parts with a record-high variety of cardinals concerned within the course of this yr, there’s no option to predict what occurs behind the closed doorways.
Let’s see.
As we anticipate black or white smoke after the primary vote, some Catholic girls campaigners launched pink smoke from flares, and demanded that girls be allowed to hunt ordination, AFP reported.
“We’re saying to the cardinals, you can not hold ignoring 50% of the Catholic inhabitants, you can not go right into a locked room and focus on the way forward for the Church with out half of the Church,” mentioned Miriam Duignan.
“Whoever they elect must be courageous sufficient to correctly deal with the query of girls’s inclusion, as a result of to date it has not been, even by Pope Francis,” mentioned Duignan, of the Wijngaards Institute in Cambridge.
Within the world church as a complete, girls have begun to take some senior lay roles, a course of that accelerated just a little beneath Pope Francis’s papacy.
However even those that have studied theology and church ministry are excluded from the priesthood, and solely monks maintain essentially the most senior management roles, AFP famous.
Chimney digital camera – reside stream
If you wish to ensure you don’t miss the results of the primary vote when it comes, right here’s our reside stream exhibiting the chimney on high of the Sistine Chapel:
Who’re the electors? – visuals
This conclave is billed as the biggest and probably essentially the most unpredictable conclave to ever happen. So let’s check out the Vatican’s personal statistics.
There are 133 cardinals electors (nicely, technically there are 135, however two have been too unwell to attend) from 70 international locations, up from 115 from 48 nations within the final conclave in 2013.
The youngest one is Mykola Bychok, 45, from Ukraine; the oldest is Carlos Osoro Sierra, who turns 80 in lower than two weeks. These over 80 aren’t concerned within the course of.
107 of them have been appointed by Pope Francis, 21 by Pope Benedict XVI, and 5 by Pope John Paul II.
The profitable candidate wants a two-third majority, 89 votes, to get elected.
So, the place do they arrive from?
The best nationwide illustration comes from Italy (17) forward of the US (10), Brazil (7), Spain and France (5 every).
Right here is the way it seems to be on the map:
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