U.S. cardinals receive sendoff before conclave
Ready for conclave: U.S. cardinals move to Vatican
North American cardinals staying at the US seminary in Rome boarded a small bus and departed with seminarians lining the street and waving them off with energetic applause.
U.S. cardinals receive a sendoff from seminarians at the Pontifical North American College in Rome May 6, 2025, as they prepare to travel to their temporary residences inside the Vatican where they will stay during the conclave to elect a new pope. From left they are Cardinals Blase J. Cupich of Chicago; Daniel N. DiNardo, retired archbishop of Galveston-Houston; Christophe Pierre, papal nuncio to the United States; and Canadian Cardinal Gérald C. Lacroix of Québec. (CNS photo/Kendall McLaren)
U.S. cardinals receive a sendoff from seminarians at the Pontifical North American College in Rome May 6, 2025, as they prepare to travel to their temporary residences inside the Vatican where they will stay during the conclave to elect a new pope. From left they are Cardinals Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, N.J., Timothy M. Dolan of New York and Robert W. McElroy of Washington. (CNS photo/Kendall McLaren)
U.S. cardinals receive a sendoff from seminarians at the Pontifical North American College in Rome May 6, 2025, as they prepare to travel to their temporary residences inside the Vatican where they will stay during the conclave to elect a new pope. (CNS photo/Kendall McLaren)
U.S. cardinals receive a sendoff from seminarians at the Pontifical North American College in Rome May 6, 2025, as they prepare to travel to their temporary residences inside the Vatican where they will stay during the conclave to elect a new pope. (CNS photo/Kendall McLaren)
U.S. cardinals receive a sendoff from seminarians at the Pontifical North American College in Rome May 6, 2025, as they prepare to travel to their temporary residences inside the Vatican where they will stay during the conclave to elect a new pope. (CNS photo/Kendall McLaren)
U.S. cardinals receive a sendoff from seminarians at the Pontifical North American College in Rome May 6, 2025, as they prepare to travel to their temporary residences inside the Vatican where they will stay during the conclave to elect a new pope. (CNS photo/Kendall McLaren)
U.S. cardinals receive a sendoff from seminarians at the Pontifical North American College in Rome May 6, 2025, as they prepare to travel to their temporary residences inside the Vatican where they will stay during the conclave to elect a new pope. (CNS photo/Kendall McLaren)