Next Wednesday, May 7, 134 Cardinals around the world will participate in the conclave of 2025, the meeting held by the Cardinal College of the Catholic Church to choose a new dad. This will be carried out in the Sistine Chapel of the Apostolic Palace, located in the Vatican Citythe official residence of the Supreme Pontiff.
Through a joint vote, the cardinals have the mission of choosing the new Holy Father that will happen to the deceased Franciscowho on March 13, 2013 became the first Pope of the American continent And in the first pontiff belonging to the Jesus Company, Being a pastor of the Catholic Church for 12 years.
According to the Vatican authorities, the beginning of the conclave to choose the new Pope develops under a “Strict ceremonial protocol” that begins with the famous Mass Pro choosing Pontifice, A celebration that invokes the Holy Spirit to illuminate the voters and manifest the communion of all Catholicism.
Throughout history, the duration of the conclaves to The choice of the new Pope has varied between a few hours and eleven months. However, brevity has been usual during the last elections; As in 2013, when only 26 hours and five votes were enough to choose the Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
The 2025 conclave schedules: Guatemala, the United States and Mexico
The 2025 conclave will be broadcast live by the signal of Free press and Guatevisión On their YouTube channel and the authorities of the Roman Catholic Church announced that the voting will begin from 4.30 pm in Rome, Italy On Wednesday, May 7, in the Vatican Sistine Chapel, the best known stay of the Palaciego team.
For its part, both in Guatemalaas in Mexico And the rest of Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras) The conclave will start at the 8.30 hours. While in Panama and in the South American countries of Peru, Ecuador and Colombia, the meeting held by the Cardinal College of the Church will begin to the 9.30 hours.
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Likewise, in the case of the United States, because it covers a total of five time zones, the conclave will start at 10.30 at the standard time of the Atlantic (AST), at 9.30 at the standard time of This (EST), at 8.30 at the standard hour Central (CST), at 7.30 at the standard mountain hour and 6.30 at the Pacific Standard Hour.
| Countries | Schedule |
| United States – Time of Peaceful (California, Washington, Nevada, Oregon and Idaho) | 6.30 hours |
| United States – Time of Mountain (Arizona, Montana, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming) | 7:30 am |
| United States – Time Central (Mississippi, Texas and Illinois) | 8:30 hours |
| GuatemalaMexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica | 8:30 hours |
| PanamaPeru, Ecuador and Colombia | 9:30 hours |
| United States – Time of This (New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire) | 9:30 hours |
| United States – Time of Atlantic (Including Puerto Rico) | 10:30 am |
What happens when they choose the new Pope?
A few minutes after the cardinals have chosen the new Pope, a kind of “will begin to leave”White smoking“Through the stove they installed in the Sistine Chapel. This White smoke It is the signal used by the Cardinal College to communicate to the world the result of the voting for the choice of the Supreme Pontiff.
Before the elected Pope is directed to the famous “tears room” located in the sacristy of the Vatican, the place where the clothing, ornaments and utensils necessary for the celebration are stored, the bells of the San Pedro Basilicawhich has the greatest interior space of a church worldwide.
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