Conclave: The choice of the new Pope will start on Wednesday evening

6. May 2025 at 18:33

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From the Vatican from our reporter Ján Krempaský.

Rome. At first glance, the square looks like before the start of a big rock concert. On the sides of the Square of St. Petra in Rome are located large screens. On the high tower in the back of the square are already built television staffs from all over the world to have the best shot on the new Pope when it shows up on the balcony above the entrance to the Basilica of Sts. Petra.

A few hours before Wednesday’s beginning of the Conclave – the election of the new Pope – the Vatican gives the impression of Babylon. On the Square of St. Peter mixes languages ​​from Italian to Spanish and English to Polish. In the center of the Vatican, it also meets modern with traditional.

Crowds of tourists heading into the basilica are still flowing from the Vatican Museums. Waiting in a row is shortened by taking pictures to have the best selfie with the most important temple of the Catholic Church in the world in the background.

Since Via della Conciliazione, which was built at the end of the 1920s as a symbol of reconciliation between the Italian state represented by fascist dictator Benit Mussolini and the Catholic Church headed by the then Pope Piom XI. A man in the middle years at the forefront of the parade carries a large wooden cross. Suddenly, one feels as if he was on the Mariánska pilgrimage in Slovak Litmanová.

RIMANKA: May it be human

Outside the Vatican and the adjacent streets in Rome, there is nothing to remind that the Conclave should start in this city on Wednesday afternoon.

« I suppose it will be long, » says Mita, 50, who rents rooms in her pension near the metro station station Roma. It is a classic Roman villa surrounded by a beautiful park.