Chapel Sistina is ready to receive a conclosure. Telecommunications are cut in the Vatican at 1400 on Wednesday.

On the next day, May 7th of 2025 (fourth of May), the Conciliator responsible for the election of the new Pope will meet and security measures will be applied in this sense. One of these measures is the court...

This Wednesday. anel of Pope Francis was destroyed and on Thursday the conclosure begins. Telecommunications signal is cut down an hour and a half before the meeting and the first smoke will be seen at 6 p.m.

Any attempt to communicate with the outside world being subject to excommunication, the papal city announced on Tuesday, May 6, that the cardinals gathered to elect a new pope should do without a network.

The conclave for the election of the new Pope will start on Thursday in the Vatican – after the death of Pope Francis on April 21, with 133 electoral cardinals from all over the world gathered at Capela Sistina to choose the 267th Pontific of the Catholic Church. The first sign of the papal conclave expected from 19:00 on Thursday is first appeared in the National Folha.

Communication will be switched off from 15:00 on May 7 and resumed after the announcement of the election of a new pontiff.

Very serious restrictions are coming into effect in Vatican City due to the papal election.