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I saw the smoke, but I haven’t seen the pope,
Trump said in the White House East Room, ... as per the CNN report
It's a moment of joy,the wait is over,
the Vatican News said in a message
Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: Habemus papam” ... I announce to you a great joy: We have a pope.”
Peter’s Basilica to announce, in Latin
I don't want it rushed - whatever they need to do to make the right decision.
Barbara Mason, who made the journey from Canada, added
My hope is that cardinals will choose a man who can be a peacemaker and could reunify the church.
He saidMay the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, intercede with her maternal intercession, so that the Holy Spirit will enlighten the minds of the Cardinal electors and help them agree on the Pope that our time needs,
he said
He who enters the conclave as pope, leaves it as a cardinal
as the old papal election saying goes
Francis was a great guy, down to earth, humble, and I hope they will choose someone just like him,
said Tom Barbitta, from the U.S. state of North Carolina
One imagines that it is in the cafeteria at the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where people do eat cafeteria style, they put food on their own trays and that sort of thing,
Millies said
The Church emphasises that the conclave is a spiritual and sacred process, not a political one,
Father Francis Lucas saidIn the past, fresh straw was used to produce white smoke, and water was added to produce black smoke,
Father Francis Lucas, a Catholic priest and executive director of the Catholic Media Network, told Al JazeeraThat doesn’t exclude the guidance of the Holy Spirit, but there certainly is a certain amount of negotiation, alliance-making, shifting alliances, those kinds of things that will happen in those spaces too,
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You don’t eat very well,
Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi of Italy, a supporter of Pope Francis, told The New York TimesThere is a lot of time over meals and informal conversations for the cardinals to decipher the meaning of what just happened in the last vote and to try to figure out where their support might go best. This is where coalitions and alliances are made,
he addedThe food is pretty ordinary, pasta, soup and fruit, which is how Francis wanted it,
a Vatican insider who has eaten there told the UK’s Times newspaperThey will return to the Domus Sanctae Marthae (Latin for Saint Martha’s House, the Vatican guesthouse) and have their midday meal, take their midday nap, and then return for the evening vote (to the Sistine Chapel). And then back again (to the Domus Sanctae Marthae) for a nighttime meal,
he added
This room where we are now was a guest room,
Pope Francis said in an interviewI chose to live here, in Room 201… The papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace is not luxurious. It is old, tastefully decorated and large, but not luxurious. But in the end, it is like an inverted funnel. It is big and spacious, but the entrance is really tight. People can come only in dribs and drabs, and I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others,
he addedHowever, this sometimes resulted in grey smoke, which led to confusion. Now, chemicals are added to ensure the smoke is distinctly black or white,
he addedIn the course of the days of the conclave, they will move by charter bus around St Peter’s to the Sistine Chapel, enter and have the morning vote,
Steven P Millies, professor of public theology at the Catholic Theological Union, a Catholic graduate school of theology in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States, told Al Jazeera