While several cardinals admitted to feeling that time is passing too quickly, one assured: "At the right moment, we will be ready, and we will give the Church the pope that God himself has wanted."
The cardinals gathered again on Saturday morning, May 3, 2025, for their ninth general congregation in preparation for the conclave. With four days to go before the doors close behind them, Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco, Archbishop of Algiers, said they need “more time for prayer together.”
Assaulted by the press as they are every morning at the Vatican gates, most of the cardinals said they had not yet decided on a candidate, including 76-year-old Charles Maung Bo of Myanmar, who said he had “none.”
