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)

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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
The Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather to elect the new pope, is seen Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller walks outside the Vatican, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Clouds pass over the St. Peter Basilica at the Vatican, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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)
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)
Cardinal Francis Leo walks near the Vatican, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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 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)
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)
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)
A nun walks past Bernini’s colonnade near St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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)
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)
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 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)
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)
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 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)
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 Jean-Marc Aveline, foreground, walks in downtown Rome, Sunday, May 4, 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 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 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)
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 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)
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)
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 )
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 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 )
Cardinal Vincent Nichols attends an interview at the Venerable English College, in Rome, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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)
A scale car of the popemobile in Rome, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 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)
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)
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 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)
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 Marc Ouellet walks outside the Vatican, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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